Puffer flags

Long before the internet small coastal steamships called ‘puffers’ and ‘vics’ would supply Scotland’s remote peatland communities with everything from cast iron stoves to coal. Ross and Marshall with their distinctive company flag named their ships after different forms of light.F90F5DEE-FFA7-45A1-A42F-AC38F65D6B25

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