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Linda, oil on canvas board, 25.4cm by 20.3cm Copyright © 1999 Peter Froome The Linda was one of two sister ships built in Falmouth, England, in 1879 for the fruit trade to Spain. After some years in the fruit trade she was sold to an Appledore owner and carried salt fish from Newfoundland to London. She was then sold in the early 1900s to Portmadoc in Wales and was engaged in general coastal trade, mainly delivering coal to coves and open beaches around the Cornish coast. She was lost in the Irish Sea in 1912. |