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Radium BF.1489

Uploaded by dave-d , Apr 04 2011 10:53 AM

Radium BF.1489



    Will taylor
    Apr 04 2011 11:20 AM
    Done it again Dave. Great detail shot o a big Zulu.

    Guest
    Apr 04 2011 12:52 PM
    Fine photo o an auld Finechty Zulu, the old man worked on this en and will be chuffed ti see this photo o her  :uglystupid2:

    This is the only one he has http://www.trawlerpi..._09_8_54_25.jpg

    young ronnie
    Apr 04 2011 03:19 PM
    An absolute belter of a photo,you can just picture that lady in her earlier years...a wee breeze of wind and a good spread of canvas drawing well...must have been a sight to behold.

    driftfisher
    Apr 08 2011 01:11 PM
    Pretty sure this boat was bought by Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen and tuned into a kind of motor yacht used for some years for teaching pupils seamanship and navigation round about 1960. Her name was changed to "Radium of Don." Don't know what happened to her. Anybody know?

    GeeBee
    Apr 09 2011 06:15 PM
    Your aul' shipmate Dennis would keep you right wi' that info, driftfisher .. he did a stint on her.
    Like most fishing boat conversions, they managed to spoil the look of the vessel!! Las time I saw her was at Muirton, Inverness .. long time ago.

    Angus Grant
    Apr 12 2011 07:10 AM
    She ended up in Bowling basin. I remember her when I was about 8 years old so that makes it about 1970. I was taking a boat through the Forth and Clyde in 2009 and I got talking to a guy who had been around Bowling all his life and I asked him if he knew what had happened to her. His version of the story is that she was renovated to a seaworthy state and escaped the canal for the first time in 20 odd years. Unfortunately she broke her swinging mooring somewhere near Roseneath in a gale and that was the end of her.

    driftfisher
    Apr 12 2011 07:57 PM
    Many thanks Angus Grant for the information; a sad end for the Radium.