By 2008, local historian Brian Masterman had completed his manuscript for a book recording the history of shipbuilding in the port town of Goole, Yorkshire. It was to be called simply Goole Shipbuilding. Rather than publishing his book as a whole, an alternative option was to have Goole Shipbuilding appear in the annual journal of the East Yorkshire Local History Society, East Yorkshire Historian. It was to be published in four parts across four journals. This, the third part by Brian, appeared in Volume 11 published in 2010. 

Titled Goole Shipbuilding (Part III) Brian’s narrative covers the period 1919 to 1937, which proved to have been a very difficult time for all involved in shipbuilding in Goole. The Goole yards and their workers enjoyed something of a post war boom but only until November 1920 when the early effects of what would become a global economic recession began to be felt. Over the next fifteen years shipyard workers walked out amid numerous local disputes, national strikes were called by the coal miners and other trades and a shortage of orders for new vessels or repair contracts led to yard closures. The country experienced its first ever general strike in 1926. All this had caused considerable hardship for the families of the unemployed in Goole over that time and it would be mid 1935 before there were signs that orders were returning to a level which would keep shipyard workers fully employed.

Masterman, Brian. (2010) Goole Shipbuilding (Part III).  East Yorkshire Historian. Vol 11. Pages 75 – 102.