Two sisters whose father was a ship's apprentice on the Glenlee Tall Ship during the First World War have travelled thousands of miles to see the…
Sue and Pat Grant met up with Stephanie Champion for the first time on Glasgow's Tall Ship Glenlee. Their relatives were apprentices on the vessel during the First World War. Picture: Gordon TerrisThree women whose relatives sailed on Glasgow's Tall Ship as young apprentices during the First World War had an emotional meet-up on the historic vessel.
Even though sailing ships were being replaced by steam and later diesel engines, the Glenlee was put to work carrying cargo around the world, and his pictures were taken on a trip between New York and Sydney in Australia where the ship was bound with a cargo of case oil. "She went out to New Zealand and met her husband and we came out here in 1955. We knew very little about Reg Mitchell and so as you get older you get more curious."They gave me this packet of very precious photographs."Her son studied in Glasgow, not knowing the ship his grandfather sailed on was berthed in the city.
"There is a lovely episode in Andy's log book where he suddenly realises it's his birthday - because time doesn't really mean anything - and the only person who gives him a present is Reg and he gives him one cigarette and it means an awful lot," said Lauren Henning, the Glenlee's learning and museums manager.
It says:"The wind suddenly increased to hurricane force, our topsails were blown from their bolt ropes, the vessel heeled over, the cargo shifted and thus she remained on her beam ends.
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