lincelles

Updated: May 2, 2025

It, was, I believe, one of J. H. Allan's teak-built craft, a forgotten line the Rajah of Cochin, the Copenhagen, the Lincelles, though only just before the War, in the South-West India Dock, I met a stranger, a seaman looking for work, who regretted its disappearance, and the new company-owned steamers; for he said they were good ships, "but more than that," he told me, "Allan was an old gentleman who knew his own ships, and knew his men."

H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson - London River