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Think this is the ketch Carbide.
Picture added on 13 December 2008
Great photo Tommy. Have you got any of the "Houton Head" and the "Rosedale"?.
Added by Fred Johnston on 16 December 2008
I think this photo and the one of the Cantick Head were taken just off the Longhope pier, the land in the background looks like Flotta.
The Carbide looks a deep boat I think they carried around 80 tons would that be correct?
The Carbide looks a deep boat I think they carried around 80 tons would that be correct?
Added by John Budge on 18 December 2008
I see she had a wheelhouse, which would have been a bit of a luxury. The "Rosedale" also had a wheelhouse, if I remember rightly. She lay at anchor off the Brims school, in the early years of the war.
Added by Fred Johnston on 22 December 2008
In the book "Finstown the village at the crossroads",there is a picture of the "Carbide" at Maitlands pier Finstown in 1922, with (Kirkwall) Dan Kirpatrick standing on the bowsprit. It gives the owner as being Kirkpatrick, Cantick farm, Longhope. Dan was always known as Kirkwall Dan in Longhope, in order to distinguish him from the Dan the lifeboat coxwain.
Added by Fred Johnston. on 20 January 2010
Hoy and Walls
