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Photo taken 1996,"Xarifa" on the far right, tied up alongside the"Creole". The Nicolson Brothers' will keep me right,hopefully- was she Hourston built for Alfie and Sons? I know most of the boats astern of the"Xarifa", back along to the boat with the tripod mast which I think is the "Welcome Home". Is the boat tied up alongside her with the blue hull "The Wings 0f The Morning" or the "Procyon"? Added by Phil Brough.
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"island queen" i would say next to "creolo"
Added by Ootanaboot on 17 February 2010
Phil thats the "Island Queen"not the "Xarifa.N o sure name of the blue boat it looks like a Halmatic build to me
Added by Gary Nicolson on 17 February 2010
I think thats the island queen alongside creole and big jim's scalpay isle alongside welcome home
Added by John on 17 February 2010
is that not jim wards boat?
Added by Alan Breck on 17 February 2010
the one alongside is the island queen k 420 is it not
Added by Alan Breck on 17 February 2010
The blue-hulled boat looks like it is the Scalpay Isle.
Added by Laurence J.E. Tait on 18 February 2010
I mind us in St Margarets Hope wae the lifeboat, I think wae were landing someone of a vessel, Anyway there were two new boats in there overnight on their way from Stromness tae Sanday, both built in Stromness. One was called Burness Queen, now the above Island Queen, the other anes name I cant remember, I do mind thinking how good hid was for Sanday to be getting two new boats in one day.
Does anyane mind what the other boat was called and what year that wid hiv been?.
Does anyane mind what the other boat was called and what year that wid hiv been?.
Added by John Budge on 18 February 2010
My mistake, definitely the Island Queen. Added by Phil Brough.
Added by Phil Brough on 18 February 2010
The Island Queen was sold to Fife a wee while back but Martin Foulis kept the K420 number on the boat he has now, the Alison Marie.
Added by Craig Taylor on 19 February 2010
John! I might be wrong but were they built by Duncans' Yard in Burray? Please correct me if I am wrong. Added by Phil Brough
Added by Phil Brough on 19 February 2010
Phil,you may well be right,and maybe that was why both boats were in The Hupp,or might one o them have been built in Stromness? You would wonder at two comming oot o' the same yard on the same day?. Answers please on a postcard to the Orkney communities website!!.
Added by John Budge on 19 February 2010
Might the ither ane been something called something like 'Killmora'? Buey buey the cells are dying fast!!.
Added by John Budge on 19 February 2010
It would be the Kailmora or Valhalla with the Burness Queen in 1972.
Added by Tommy Kirkpatrick on 19 February 2010
John It might have been Jeemo Slaters boat Kailmora she was built by the Duncans
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