| Description | Charles Parker, Ewan MacColl, and Peggy Seeger interview Sam Larner, a fisherman from Norfolk, England
Track 1: Sam Larner talks about the crew on the steam drifter he worked on in 1899, 1.39 mins
Track 2: he talks about how he felt when he first stepped on a drifter, how he felt when they left the jetty, 2.08 mins
Track 3: the differences between a sailing boat and a drifter: the motion and the noise of the engines, 1.22 mins
Track 4: Charles Parker asks about the smell of the drifter; Sam Larner talks about living conditions being better on drifters, he didn't sail on a ship with a toilet on board till after the First World War, 1.49 mins
Track 5: he talks about working nets on a drifter compared to a sailing boat, 1.42 mins
Track 6: talks about playing cards at nights on board ship, drifters being more comfortable, going to London in 1902, 2.54 mins
Track 7: Sam Larner talks about the 'Lottie', the ship he sailed in between 1899 and 1902, sailing between Yarmouth, Lowestoft, and Lerwick, 2.29 mins
Track 8: talks about the boiler door breaking the first time he sailed in a steam drifter, calling for help from a tug, 2.03 mins
Track 9: they talk about ships sending distress signals, earning good pay, giving his pay to his mother, 2.17 mins
Track 10: talks about steam drifters being able to do more trips than sailing boats, they talk about courting, 3.19 mins
Track 11: talks about not being able to write to his girlfriend because he was at sea, doing drill, 1.32 mins
Track 12: talks about his job on the 'Lottie', 1.41 mins
Track 13: he talks about leaving the 'Lottie' in 1902 to go to London and find Dorcas, his future wife, 1.47 mins
Track 14: talks about his father being in hospital with heart trouble, 2.02 mins
Track 15: he quotes from a poem his father liked and recalls how his father would tell him about the sea and the moon, 1.39 mins
Track 16: talks about his father telling him about the moon and the tides, 1.47 mins
Track 17: recalls his father's advice: always carry a knife, a shilling, and a piece of string, talks about knives, 1.43 mins
Track 18: they talk about splicing wire, his father teaching him the rules of the road and the weather, 0.48 mins
Total: 34.49 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF 549C0500880 |