TONIGHT'S picture (Wednesday, August 17) is of the Severn Trow Jonadab in the Bristol Channel. She was built in 1848 at Newport, South Wales and worked in general trade around the Bristol area, and Welsh Ports sometimes trading to Ireland. She was seen in Gloucester but there is no record of her reaching Worcester. Lowering their masts for Gloucester bridge stopped many of the larger trows. In 1950, she was motorised after 100 years under sail, and, in 1960, she was abandoned on the foreshore at Lydney. Any reader interested in the local trows should visit www.WorcesterVista.com.
R M SINCLAIR,
Lower Broadheath.
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