Wellspring

Today's the day …………………….. to change your name

This is all that remains of the FV 'Wellspring'  that has spent the last fifteen years or so hauled up on the banks of the River Dee at Kirkcudbright.

She was built in 1950 for Ernest Wood of Pittenweem at J. L. Miller and Sons in St. Monans, Fife - and originally named 'Wilsheernie KY140'. She had an 88hp Kelvin engine and was around fifty-three feet long.  She was sold to John Warnock of Portavogie, Northern Ireland, in 1959 for the sum of £4,000 and re-named 'Investor'. From there she was sold to a fisherman in Waterford, where she became the 'William Edward'.

She came back to Scotland in 1967 when she was sold to Thomas West in Fraserburgh. She was registered 'Wellspring FR 406' after Mr. West re-named her in keeping with the usual habit of naming his boats 'Wellspring'...……………...