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Geschiedenis van Alpha - Alpha history

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Alpha history

Alpha history

The pilot cutter Alpha was built at Fleetwood in Lancashire in 1904 by Liver & WIlding, under the master shipwright William Stoba. This man was once described as “exact and temperamental and if he did not get what he wanted he went home, as he did on the day a lad brought him galvanised nails when he had ordered copper. On being told there were no copper nails in store he reached for his hat and coat saying he might as well go home, as there was no point in staying with no work to do, and he could not work without the right materials.” An apprentice caught sharpening a pencil with a knife would get a sharp crack over the knuckles. “ What is your chisel for”? Stoba would bark. A later employer of his is said to have lamented that “ Stova would be the ruining of them all with his demands for tropical hardwoods and expensive fittings. He was a perfectionist and he thought it was not his business to worry how much things cost.”