Thanks for that, Tina. Very Interesting, as my Dad was at Palmers at that time, although he was a structural engineer, rather than a shipwright.

And one of my current hobbies is building wooden model boats, pretty much from scratch..and the tool box & tools next to it measures 1" x 1/2"!!!!



This is the ships boat that Cpt Bligh was set adrift in, after the mutiny on HMS Bounty.

Sorry, this is nowt to do with Hebburn...