Victoria FR-971
Victoria FR-971
Year: C.1950s?
Duration: 01:17
Filmed By: JB McDonald
A short clip showing FR-971 Victoria on what appears to be possibly her last day of use by the owners featured in the film.
“This was my Great Grandfather’s boat. She was the first 70ft fifie to come in to Fraserburgh and she was the biggest boat there in her time. She was struck by another boat, The Iris, and then towed to the breakwater to asses the damage but she was too old to repair and the damage was bad so she was patched so that they could get her to Sandhaven to be be broken up. In the second part of the clip, you can see the patch on the boat as it sat on Sandhaven shore.
I now have a small boat named Victoria with the same number named after my Great Grandfather’s boat.”