Penola
 

Interesting captioned photo from an old album

You're certainly having a great turn out of old photographs and amazingly they're all annotated. Nice one Hollydog :)

Thanks - I have been asking around and Anne Wagstaff has come up with some, quite a few we already have on here, but I am picking out ones that might be of interest, apologies if anyone has seen them before!

My dad used to talk about the Penola coming to Amble just before the war. She was originally called the Navaho and was built in Kerity, Finisterre, Brittany in 1905. She was renamed in 1934 when she was taken to the Antarctic for the British Graham Land Expedition of 1934-37.
She was brought to Amble in 1938 when she was bought by the Fountains Abbey Settlers' Society Ltd (later known as the Fountains (Northumberland) Trust of Swarland House) to carry timber for their sawmills. She sank after a collision on the Clyde on 2 November 1940.

Thanks, very interesting.

A little more on the net, including the wreck location.
Anyone know any more about the Newcastle workers and their circumstances?. The 1930s were evidently very difficult times for employment.

Penola (Rymill)

Description: A 130-ton Brittany fishing schooner with twin auxiliary screws, it was built in 1905, and bought by Rymill for £3,000. He renamed it Penola, for his home town in Australia. Its rig was altered in the Falklands to one more suited to the ice, but its engine mounting was misalighned. It sailed to the Antarctic from te Falklands.
[Source: Stewart, p. 760]
Fate: The locaton below puts this wreck off the Isle of Bute in western Scotland.
Wreck Name PENOLA
Area Toward point
Location Cowel peninsula. Clyde
Lat (N) 55 51' 43
Long (W) 04 59' 40
Datum CHART
Max Depth 1.00
Vessel Type Wooden aux.Schooner
Tonnage 138.00
Length (ft) 106
Beam (ft) 24.1
Draught (ft) 11.6
Year Sank 1940.00
How Sank Collision
Info 1 Shallow but not found
[Source: http://www.chippenhamdivers.co.uk/lookup/sfx_frm.htm]