This ghostly story is pure imagination and is set in a very old part of North Shields down by the river Tyne.
BUT it is true that Press men did take young sailors from the area to man their boats and that a landowner gathered his men to fire at a Privateer ship off Seaton Sluice nearby.
There was a training ship moored off Shepherds Quay.
How do I know all this? People still talk about the comings and goings on in Clive Street.
Nowadays sailing ships (tall ships) still call in the Tyne from time to time.
