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.
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