The subject line more or less says it.

In the great song "Three Score and Ten" is told the story of the loss, in the 1890s, I think, of seventy seamen in a great October sea storm, just counting the ones from the Grimbsy area, while there were great losses from other towns up and down the coast.

Now, that's got to be a terrible blow to any city, but what was the size of Grimsby at that time? Just to have an idea of the relative impact.

Dave Oesterreich