The Sinking of the Mizpah: and other harrowing tales from fishing with the Swackies

by James G Whitelaw

Fishing is still a dangerous job today, but there were less safeguards and safety measures forty years ago when boats regularly simply disappeared without trace.

This is a first hand account of some horrendous but true stories onboard a small sixty foot wooden fishing boat fishing off the north coast of Scotland around the 1980 period.

The book follows one fishing family through their successes and their tragedies, including two eye...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1914590163
• ISBN13: 9781914590160
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Swackie Ltd
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"