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Full sail on choppy seas
The Windrush, shown here in glorious full sail on choppy seas, was brand new when my father’s Uncle Johnny was apprenticed on board at Bristol docks. The ship was a three masted barque, built in Sunderland in 1891 and registered there in … Continue reading