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No: 25489 Contributor: Colin Cooper Year: 2011
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the zephyr at hatston slip.i remember this boat was in stronsay many years ago and took the mail and supplies to the lightkeepers on auskerry. johnny and ernie fiddler and their father would have made many trips from whitehall village to auskerry in all sorts of weather. not sure of the times she would have been doing this maybe the 1940s, but ernie would certainly know. picture taken 11th august. photo taken 11th august 2011
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We must have stood on exactly the same spot to take this photo Colin. See picture #25401. You have added a lot of interesting information though
Added by Sandy on 17 August 2011
My Father told me this boat was lengthened,think it was when somebody in Sanday had it.
Added by Michael Thomson on 17 August 2011
My grandfather had this boat in Stronsay in the first half of the 20th century and ran the mails and supplies to Auskerry with his son, Johnnie. He had the boat lengthened at one point, I think at Duncan's boatyard in Burray. Latterly, Ernie and Johnnie did the run but with a new boat, called the Alert. Various people have owned the Zephyr since my grandfather's day.
Added by Bertha Fiddler on 18 August 2011
There is a court case about John Fiddler ramming the Zephyr into my grandfather Peter Shearer's boat called Ina. I found the article in The Orcadian Thursday Oct 25th 1928. Court case was called 'The battle of Papa Sound'
Added by Irene Flett Cameron on 22 January 2012
Weel! Whit dae y'ken? You post a photo on this site and you never know what will turn up That's what I like about Orkney Image Library. Thanks Bertha and Irene.
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Added by Sandy on 22 January 2012
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