Built as a wooden hulled yacht by Clare Ship Building Co. Ltd. Meteghan, NS Canada.
Launched under the name CHRISTOPHER AND ERROL
Tonnage 316 gross, 98 net, dim. 133.4 x 26ft.
1944 Completed, her owner unknown.
1947 Converted in a fishing vessel and renamed VOORBOK (A South African name so most probably owned in South Africa.)
1954 Sold to Tristan Investment Ltd., Cape Town and renamed FRANCES REPETTO.
She was fishing in the waters of Tristan da Cunha from 1954 till 1965.
09 July 1971 whilst under tow she began taken water and was abandoned off Robben Island, South Africa thereafter she sank.
Tristan da Cunha 1993 35p sg546, scott528. 1997 30p sg633, scott 614. 1997 £1.20 sg?, scott617, (in margin)
Source: Watercraft Philately Vol. 44 page 84. Lloyds Register 1954/55. Some web-sites.