Museum’s shipshape local purchase

Running to just over a hundred pages and containing numerous illustrations of ships, figureheads and portrait busts, an accounts ledger kept by a Cumbrian shipbuilder has gone to a local museum.

The ledger for Kelsick Wood of KW & Sons, shipbuilders of Maryport on the Solway Firth, was pu…

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