Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Starboard Broadside view of the schooner GLYCINE, c.1936.

Many of the Breton schooners were built originally for service in the great cod-fishing fleet that left Brittany every spring to fish off southern Iceland. The 182 gross ton Glycine was built at Paimpol in 1911 as a 'chasseur', a fast sailing vessel that took salt up to the fishing fleet, returning with the best of the new season's cod. By the late 1930s, however, she had been relegated to the pit-wood trade and is seen here arriving at Cardiff with such a cargo. Note the discharging gaff with its block and tackle already rigged on the foremast.

Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.

Schooner.