The Perils of Creel Fishing (1825)

The following single-paragraph article appeared in the “Caledonian Mercury”, an Edinburgh newspaper, on the 17^th October 1825: 

“On Tuesday last, a yawl, with two men, which had gone off from Portlethen, to take up their partan creels, was some time after found on her side, with her mast and sail in the water; from which it is supposed it must have been upset by a sudden squall. Both the men, father and son, by the name of Craig, were drowned; the former leaving a wife and family, as well to lament his loss, as that of the latter sufferer, who was a fine young man of 21 years of age, on the eve of being married”.