An undated view looking across the river from a point near the site of Redheads shipyard at North Shields, unless I'm mistaken.
The collier HOMEFIRE was built by S.P.Austin & Sons Ltd., Sunderland, in 1925 for the Gas, Light and Coke Co. Most of her crew were lost when she was attacked and sunk by enemy aircraft off the Yorkshire coast in 1941 while on passage from the Thames to Sunderland.