Thanks Noreen & Crane Driver for answering my query.

Noreen, I have got more (w)rinkles than I need and as for the "Baggy"? No comment!

We hit on the name for our group after it was explained to me by the skipper of the Maria Asumpta what a "baggyrinkle" was. The crew had set up a display along the wall of the Swansea Maritime Museum at the 1994 Swansea Maritime festival.

Sadly, the "Grand Old Lady" was wrecked off the Cornish Coast in May 1995.

I was honoured to be invited to a memorial service in Greenwich for the Maria and for the three crew members who perished with her.

The Maria Asumpta is still fondly remembered at the Swansea Maritime Festival.


Dave R.