The next song in the show was "Lord Middleton", already listed above at 12 Apr 2011.

Sung by Ged Higson

The breaker's yard was the normal end for trawlers that had become obsolete, as successive improvements in design, engines, fishing techniques rendered old vessels too inefficient and expensive to run.

Some de-commissioned vessels weren't even worth scrapping. Fleetwood Marsh, just up-river from the Dock Channel which let ships enter the Wyre Dock from the River Wyre, is the graveyard for several ships that reached the end of their working lives just at the wrong time.

Some good pictures here, both wooden and steel vessels gradually decaying into the mud:-
http://www.fleetwood-fishing-industry.co.uk/fleetwood-wrecks/

We brought Charlie (Charley Noble) and Judy Ipcar down to the marsh when they visited Fleetwood last year. He was impressed enough by the atmospheric remains to produce a song in tribute - listed above.

Ross