VITAL SPARK BOAT, INVERARAY, SCOTLAND, CIRCA JUNE 2014.
tHE VITAL SPARK, was built by Brown's Shipyard, Hull, in 1944. After being sold out of naval service in 1968, it wasrenamed ELSEDA. It was then used as a cargo vessel based at Troon. In 1972, she was again sold and worked around the Scottish islands dredging coal from sunken vessels. In 1984, she was once more sold and renamed EILEAN EASDEAL to run a inter-island cargo service around the Western Isles until 1994 (when the Scottish Office withdrew its subsidy for Scottish Shipping). In 2001, she was brought to the Inveraray Maritime Museum, where she still is, and in 2006, she was re-registered as VITAL SPARK, the name of the ficitional puffer that appeared in the Para Handy books by Neil Munro. Less
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Location: maritime Museum, Inverary, Argyllshire, Scotland
Photo credit: © Eric Franks / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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