Flower of the Fal Schooner - Stitching Sea and Sky

      So now we're on to embroidering the sea and the sky . This might take us a long time to stitch . 

                                              It was a dark and cold November night .

                                                          The year being 1912 .

   

Great Grandpa Captain Joseph had not gone on this trip , he was back  home in Flushing , fast asleep in his bed .

One of his three sons Captain Stanley and four other men were on this trip  . In her last years the Flower of the Fal was carrying coal and general cargo .

This night , they were just off the Isle of Wight  . They were on their way , we think , from Hartlepool  to Devonport Plymouth  and then on to the coal yard in Flushing Cornwall . 

Great Grandpa's  three sons often went on board  along with other men .

 On this night , I am told , there were just a crew of five .

💐Great Aunt May said  that she went with them  on a trip to Antwerp when she was a young girl . We wish she was still here to tell us more of her happy sea stories .💐

Anyway .... The men were fast asleep in their bunks . One of the crew would have been on watch .

It was a very cold ....... dark , but calm night ......