Echo reader Jan Russell emailed in this photo of the shipwrights and apprentices celebrating the launch of a yacht at the yard of R A Newman & Son, Yacht Builders & Engineers, on Poole Quay taken around 1948. Jan's late father Robert (Bob) Hale is in the photo along with few remembered names, Maurice Cluett, Maurice Cartridge, Wally Cartridge, Charlie Wills, Trumpy Gough, Gilly Potter and Geoff Tapper.
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