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This schooner is layed up below Logies Pier in Westray. The
reason for this lay up for the Winter is, the insurance was
a lot dearer if you sailed at that period. The Schooner was bought by my Father John & Brother George Carter in Parr Cornwall in 1925.
It was broken up in Deerness in 1930, it was built in Jersey in 1866.
View Large VersionPicture added on 08 July 2009
I believe this same vessel was the subject of a 'message from the sea' expressing distress off the Northumberland coast on 21 December 1876, with the likelihood that it would soon wreck 'between Ferns and Coquet', signed by 'W. McReddy'. Presumably it did not! See 'The Scotsman' newspaper of 29 December 1876 about the message 'picked up on the shore in a tin box' at Greenses, Berwick (among other reports)
Added by Graham Faiella on 22 November 2022
Rousay
