Article: The Miller's tale; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENT.(Features)

Byline: Compiled by Charles Legge

QUESTION

Does anyone know the fate of the schooner Malcolm Miller? My husband has fond memories of sailing aboard her.

THE Sail Training Association was set up in 1956 with the aim of bringing together young people from all over the world to teach them about life at sea on tall ships. Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh, was its patron.

In 1964, the STA commissioned its own sail training vessel, the Sir Winston Churchill, built by Dunston's, in Hessle, Hull, and launched in February 1966. It proved so popular that the STA commissioned a second ship, the threemasted topsail schooner Malcolm Miller, ...

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