Fast Fish
Tulloch, Andrina2019
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Even for a Shetland youngster as familiar with the sea as Davy Clark this was something new. His thoughts were also in tumult as he reflected on the home life in Yell left far behind what seemed a lifetime ago. Six weels! And here he was battling his way to the antarctic whaling. His experiences were perhaps typical of the men who went south with Salvesen's in search of work. They found it. Rough, tough, dirty and dangerous work at that, as they endured the stink and grime of a foul trade and even the horror of seeing shipmates lost overboard. But they found something else too. Davy, like many others, found the friendships and cameradie which has reamined at thee heart of the strong bonds of the declining band of Shetland ex-whalers to this day. Davy's story is related through his sister Andrina Tulloch, from his early life including working on the Yell Sound ferry with his father, through his whaling adventures, his successes at local regattas and his eventual retirement as a tug skipper at Sullom Voe.
Main title:
Fast Fish / Andrina Tulloch.
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Imprint:
Lerwick : Shetland Times, 2019.
ISBN:
9781910997291
Dewey class:
920
Language:
English
BRN:
3907909
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