BRITISH ADVOCATE
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 10:52 pm
British Advocate, Sir James Laing yard number 683. Launched 09.06.1922 for B.P. Tankers. A few days after the launch, my grandfather was involved in hauling the launchways around the slipway. A wire snapped and lashed him, unconcious, into the river. Hospitalised until the middle of September he had a leg amputated and died as a result. My father was six months old at the time and was not particularly pleased when I started to serve my apprenticeship at J.L.Thompsons.