Hull Trawler Challenge

My mother’s stepfather, Samuel Dawkins Farman, was the inaugural skipper of the Queen Alexandra. His brothers and brothers-in-law were all trawler skippers in Great Yarmouth, I think there were 7 in total, and 3 became mission ship skippers. I have a few photographs, but not of the ships themselves. Also details of the family going back to my great great grandfather, William Dawkins Farman, who perished in the lifeboat Rescuer tragedy off Gorleston in 1866.
Brian Crosswell

wonderful to know that the work of the Mission Ships carried out by the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, is still on going in 2009
and needs our support. http://www.fishermensmission.org.uk

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