The harbourmaster’s office is nonetheless still busy, one of its walls lined by old sepia photographs of the harbour in busier days. “I have worked here for nearly 27 years,” Tom Nielsen, the harbourmaster, says. “We used to have 55 boats at one time, and now we have one left… You could walk across the harbour from one fishing boat to another. It was absolutely full. So many ships, so many people in the industry, in the factory, as mechanics, electricians. There were three people on land for every one person at sea.
