(before)
(before)
(after and close, close, close)
(after, step back)
(after, all the way back)
Launched on the Clyde in 1865 and sailed on through to Canada, past Montreal and through to Ottawa and then scrapped in 1938.
It took me a little while to find some neglected ties, but eventually a couple peeked out from a thicket of rose bushes. I crouched down to snip the old ones off, and tie the new one on, my legs cramping, co-workers walking past. An obscure image in an awkward location. This is a week where I wanted a ship that knew the same waters that I knew. I left it down there low, next to the ashes.
