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I have here a photograph loaned to me by Jimmy Moar fae Hoy, and it shows Colin Howard and his son Paul with a lifebelt from the Grimsby trawler wrecked on Hoy 1950s. Colins father Eric was Boatswain on the Leicester City that fateful night when the trawler was wrecked at Braebister. Hoy Eric survived but others perished.
More info on this ships loss to come soon from items loaned to me by Jimmy with his permission to use on this site.
Picture added on 11 March 2010 at 18:08
Hoy and Walls
