This is a new feature on our Family History site which aims to publish interesting articles about particular events, people and places, compiled using our family history data, photographs and sources.


This first article concerns the crew of a fishing trawler which included our grandfather, Alexander Pirie.

Future articles will include:

  • William Cheyne Drapery shops in Fraserburgh in the early 1900s.
  • The Loss of the 'Evangeline' in 1905.


ST Beathwood and the Fate of her Crew
A steam trawler at anchor off the East coast of Scotland on a beautiful calm clear moonlit night in September 1940. What happened next?



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