Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on February 28, 2010 at 16:38:23 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: PM review on Amazon posted by Peter Ceresole on February 28, 2010 at 14:51:06:
The view from the GOBLIN...
Peter I will spare you a few yards of square rigger anorakery (mind you, Ransome was a square rigger anorak himself...) and summarise - the POMMERN like the other ships in the Gustav Erikson fleet, the very last fleet of square rigged, cargo carrying, sailing ships, was in the grain trade from Australia to Britain, calling at Falmouth for orders on reaching soundings in the Channel in order to learn which port to make, and there is a photograph of her in Ipswich docks in May 1936.
So there's your answer.
I am very confident that Ransome himself saw her there and in the Orwell.