This is a photograph of Xmas or Burns Supper at Scapa Flow with crews of the Artic Convoys /North Sea escort /minsweeps crew WW11

My father Andrew Ritchie is 11th from the left second row Possibly other locals from Gourdon/Johnshaven and other coastal fishing villages

are also there

Edward Mowat & wife Catherine Ritchie

Me and my sister Ann

Above are pictures of my paternal grandparents Andrew Ritchie & Anne Lowniealso my parents Andrew Richie & Annabell Fotheringham

The following seven paper clippings relate to the 23rd September 1947 when the fishing boat Elizabeth was missing in a storm and believed lost

It was found 20 miles off Aberdeen by the trawler Soubrette who began the tow then the tow was taken up by the Happy Return Gourdon fishing boat

The crew of the Elizabeth were William Lownie,John Duncan Smith, Alexander Souter and James McBay.