'Plough' KY232 and 'Mace' KY224, Anstruther, 1938

'Plough' KY232 and 'Mace' KY224, Anstruther, 1938
'Plough' KY232 and 'Mace' KY224, Anstruther, 1938
'Plough' KY232 and 'Mace' KY224, Anstruther, 1938
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'Plough' KY232 and 'Mace' KY224, Anstruther, 1938
'Plough' KY232 and 'Mace' KY224, Anstruther, 1938. Two steam drifters owned and skippered by the Gardner family of Cellardyke. They are approaching the east pier where a large crowd of people and a coal lorry are waiting.

Steel steam drifter ‘Plough’ KY232 was built by Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen, in 1912 for Martin Gardner Jnr., John Gardner, Thomas Gardner & others, Cellardyke. Robert Meldrum Gardner was the skipper.

Subsequent history:
1921 Irwin & Johnson Ltd., Regd. Cape Town.
1923 Kerguelen Sealing & Whaling Co. Ltd., Cape Town
1927 Irwin & Johnson (South Africa) Ltd, Cape Town
1933 Register closed

‘Mace’ KY224 was built in 1919 by Alexander Hall & Co. for the Admiralty as HMD ‘Thunderclap’. She was transferred to the Fishery Board for Scotland and first fished as ‘Zena & Ella’ BCK321. Martin Gardner (Snr) of Cellardyke bought the boat in 1923 and his son Martin (Jnr) was the skipper.

Subsequent History:
1934 Mrs Annie Gardner, Cellardyke - same mng
194_ Fred Parkes, Blackpool
1945 United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)
1945 Polish Government - reg Gdynia (GDY113)
1948 Arthur W Easton, Lowestoft - reg LT35
1955 Broken up in Belgium.

ANSFM : 1976.207
The Scottish Fisheries Museum Trust Ltd
Bk36 p61
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