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shows HMS Goldfinch in happier times, before being wrecked on Start Point. The three pictures show the surviving wreckage.Willie writes:
'[Top picture shows] the bow/forefoot of HMS Goldfinch on Start point in Sanday. It along with another bit would make excellent displays at Lyness.'
'[Middle picture features] another bit of HMS Goldfinch showing a porthole with the distinctive "eyebrow" over it.'
'[Bottom picture] shows the last bit worth saving.'
Picture added on 07 September 2006
When she was wrecked - she was commanded by my grandfather, Reginald Guy Stone.
Added by Jamie Stone, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross on 25 September 2006
Sanday
