This well-kept device in the engine room of MV Farrigford

indicates what the various paddles are doing at any one time. The P and S refer to port and starboard with the M I presume indicate amidship, nautical advice appreciated! This would seem to indicate that the MV Farringford, undertaking the 18.15 sailing from New Holland Pier to Hull Corporation Pier was heading almost straight ahead across the cold Humber at this time. Thomas Reid & Sons (Paisley) Ltd. was a deck machinery manufacturers from 1900 until 2008 when the inevitable closure came according to an article that I discovered in The Scotsman newspaper.