April 29, 2023April 29, 2023 threadinburgh

The thread about the taking of the SS “Alster” as a wartime prize in Leith; her hectic part in the Norwegian Campaign and the Battle of the Atlantic; life and death survival at sea; and an unlikely German sea captain

April 2, 2023April 2, 2023 threadinburgh

The thread about a charity shop book that lead to the story of Captain William Thomson Dawson and the loss of the Leith tanker “Peder Bogen”