CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
The shipping records were not helpful. The Dundee, London and Hull shipping company passenger lists did not include anybody under thirty years old, let alone a parcel of young boys. One whaling ship owner had sailed to Hull and returned two days later, and a coaster had taken a part cargo of jute sacking. Watters did not find any other records of a vessel sailing from the Tay to a Yorkshire port.
After a frustrating day, Watters took Eddie’s cab to Gall’s boatbuilding yard in Broughty Ferry.
“Are you back again, Sergeant Watters?” Gall knew Watters from previous cases. He emerged from beneath an open fishing yawl with an adze in his hand. “What are you after this time?”
“Do you have a boat to hire, Mr Gall?”
Gall smiled. “Did you not get enough seafaring last year?
