Charles Pears, PSMA, ROI British, 1873-1958
This work shows Pears in his yawl `Wanderer' within hailing distance to the Captain of the Finnish barque `Lawhill'. Lawhill was built at the Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company yard of W. B. Thompson in Dundee, Scotland, and launched on 24 August 1892. Although her career was not especially remarkable, save perhaps for being consistently profitable as a cargo carrier, in the 1930s Richard Cookson went on board and extensively documented her internals and construction, which was later published in the 'Anatomy of the Ship' series. In the year of this work (1939), she was chiefly shipping grain and was under the flag of Finland. Two years later in 1941, when Finland had allied herself to Nazi Germany, she was confiscated by the South African government and was then used by the Allies during the rest of the War. She was finally broken up for scrap in 1959 in Mozambique.