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    bryan DE127
    Jan 29 2011 10:13 PM
    Built as the purser Coronella BF277 hull built at George Brown Greenock then fitted out at Forbes. dont know if she was one of the hulls for Smith&Hutton as they were going to built two pursers before the went bust.
    Of the 2 pursers that Smith & Hutton were to build, they only finished Flowing Tide BF200 for John (Bergen) West. When they went "belly-up", they were building Bountiful BF as a purser for Jim Watt, and Honeydew FR as a seiner/trawler for James West .. in Dundee. Bountiful's hull came out of Teesmarine, Middlesburgh .. Honeydew had an identical hull.
    Eventually, A wooden Bountiful was built at Sandhaven, with engines, winches, machinery etc cannibalised from steel one. James West got nothing. Bad time with a lot of yards .. early- mid '70s.
    Bryan, don't know if Coronella and Breneline were in the pipeline for Smith and Hutton or not. Remember seeing them being fitted out in the Broch.

    bryan DE127
    Jan 30 2011 06:03 PM
    There was four hulls laid in the wet dock at Dundee George as well as the Flowing Tide I am sure two went to Aberdeen for a while and two were in the Broch after the yard went down .I think one hull went to Norway for fitting out but its a long time ago so I could be wrong ;D

    caveat emptor
    Jan 31 2011 01:45 AM
    The Honeydew went to Norway.

    Think there were at least half a dozen on order when they went bust.

    One became the Albannach and another the Amaranthos.
    Bryan, when the yard bust, there were only Bountiful and Honeydew in Dundee, where Smith & Hutton were fitting out the boats. I was deckhand aboard the wooden Bountiful at the time. We sailed down to the Tay, into the dock with the tide. In 2 days, we loaded everything moveable on to a lorry (belonging to Bountiful, with Liquidator's Yard No. 147 on each item). The 750hp Blackstone was on a separate lorry. I spoke to one of the directors, a Dave Reekie at the time. She was sealed watertight at main deck level, and we towed her to John Lewis' yard in Abdn, who were going to complete her.
    Owners decided not to accept her as a purser. Think she went to Norway to become a houseboat. The other 2 that came to the Broch may have been in Dundee at a later stage, but I don't know.
    On a lighter vein, Andrew Cowe (fellow deckie .. later of Golden Dawn) and myself jumped aboard her outside Aberdeen, when we shortened the tow-line. Only Andra and myself on the whaleback as we came up the river. Years later, I said to Jim Watt, who ordered the boat with his partner Forbes West, that I got more than he did from his purser .. I at least got a sail in her!!