Barque Sirimahannop

As I was on a long tail boat river tour on the Chao Phraya in Bangkok I suddenly saw a tall ship alongside the bank and quickly snapped a few pictures.

Sirimahannop

Across two Oceans in the Fennia

After having learned about Fennia in Falklands during my visit I did some research and came over the diary of Mr Howlett on JStor that depicts his voyage from Australia to Europe in 1926. He had the wherewithal to negotiate his passage and then had the luxury to take off in Chile for some sightseeing so he was not a deck boy per se a but still helped and worked where he could as well as taught he cadets English. I also have corrected the anglicised names with the Scandinavian alphabet.

Fennia crew at the helm

Sail training ship Fennia

Having visited Falklands I came over the information by accident in a pub that a Finnish sailing vessel, FENNIA, had in early 1900's limped into Port Stanley jury rigged after having been partly demasted in a severe storm. 

Poster of shipwrecks around Falklands

Lawhill in the news

Lawhill (courtesy of Clydeships)

Lawhill chronology

Lawhill colorized with the Finnish flag (courtesy of Erick Navas)

Captain Arthur A Soderlund

As I was visiting Tristan da Cunha a colleague of mine had told me there is a Finn buried over there. Before the port was the local cemetery so I requested our hosts to stop there to have a quick look.

The Söderlund family (courtesy of Pix in 1945)