From the original, medium format negative. A steel, steam, fishing drifter built in 1932 by Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen for William C. & J. B. Wilson, Whitley Bay. Kirkcaldy registered. Requisitioned during WW2 as a hospital drifter. Sold to Yarmouth in 1956 and registered as ‘Wilson Line’ YH.105. The original Alexander Hall & Co. […]

From the original, medium format negative.

A steel, steam, fishing drifter built in 1932 by Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen for William C. & J. B. Wilson, Whitley Bay. Kirkcaldy registered. Requisitioned during WW2 as a hospital drifter. Sold to Yarmouth in 1956 and registered as ‘Wilson Line’ YH.105. The original Alexander Hall & Co. engine was replaced in 1959 with a diesel engine from Ruston & Hornsby Ltd., Lincoln. Left for Greece in 1975 and was still working there, as a cargo vessel, in 1994.