The fishing fleet at Dock End Whitby, this postcard view is stamped 1907. The two masted fishing drifter tied up to the quay, has an PZ (Penzance) Cornish registration. At the height of the Herring season, the harbour would have been full of Scottish, Cornish and other East Coast ports fishing craft of many different types. The boats and the fisher lasses that handled the catch onshore travelled following the Herring shoals as they moved around the coast.
Image courtesy of Ken Johnson.
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