Posted by Roger Wardale on June 20, 2011 at 12:33:21 user RogerW.
In Reply to: Re: Nancy and Peggy posted by Duncan on June 20, 2011 at 07:28:45:
Duncan,
To try to respond to the three points. The interview was for 'Paddling with Peter Duck' due to be broadcast on Radio 4 sometime in August which lasted well over the hour and it seemed that I was talking non-stop.
Sir Oliver Scott, whose family owned Esperance sent me some photos of the craft as she was in the 1930s when he was a boy. He told me that there were no other craft in the area.
Ransome collected Swallow from Bowness Bay or Walker's boatyard north of Ferry Nab (off the top of my head, I can't remember which) and sailed to Storrs. You are absolutely right in your reconstruction so far as I am concerned. I for one do not think that you are being over romantic.
Regarding the Crossley/Pull Wyke nonsense. In my view it is just that. Some years ago when the business first raised its unfortunate head, I corresponded with a member of the family, who refuted the claims that were being made on her behalf. I cannot remember the exact details at this distance in time. Nothing that i have read on the subject stood up to the least scrutiny.