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]