Sail & Steam Revisited

This book starts off with a disaster at sea with great loss of life in 1848, there then followed the Admiralty report by Captain Washington who was sent north to see if fishing boats could be better made to protect the lives of the fishermen. This led to an upsurge in building of the new herring boats which were much more stable and could reach out to distant waters. It starts with the Scaffies, moves on to the Zulus and then finally to the Steam drifters. We concentrate on the yards building them in the Buckie & District from Cullen to Portgordon and places in between. Numerous yards were busy with orders for Zulus and Steam Drifters