Part 4 in the series A Trawlerman’s Reminiscences, written by Hull skipper William Oliver in 1953 (Photographs courtesy of Alec Gill) In March 1905, we sailed again in the Cecil Rhodes for Iceland. We had a terrible trip for weather,…
Built in 1960 at the Fraserburgh boatyard of T Summers & Co, the traditional Fraserburgh yawl Amethyst has recently been lovingly refurbished at Lochaline, reports David Linkie Nearly three years ago, Malcolm Burge and Kay Nuttall fulfilled a long-cherished ambition…
Tim Oliver reports on a two-day international conference, held in London, to find answers to the problems in the UK scallop sector The organisers of an international conference on the management of the UK scallop sector said they were ‘thrilled’…
Buckie harbour of yesteryear Located on the south shore of the Moray Firth, Buckie harbour has a longstanding tradition of fishing. A century ago, Buckie harbour was home to a large fleet of sailing drifters. These were subsequently replaced by…
Inshore fishermen fishing from Mersea Island, located in the Blackwater and Colne estuaries southeast of Colchester, Essex, sell a lot of their small-scale catches to a loyal and growing number of local and not-so-local customers. John Worrall reports Want to…
Macduff Shipyards delivers third new boat to Peterhead skipper, two months ahead of schedule Peterhead skipper James West and the crew of the 21.5m twin-rig prawn trawler Westro PD 20 were expected to sail from their home port this week…
There have been a few people who have helped me along the way during my career within the fishing industry, but none more so than Reg Matthews, who sadly passed away on 22 January, 2019, aged 87. Reg Matthews was…
Jim Mckerracher has a thing about Tommy Summers yawls. John Worrall reports He’s restored two, worked on a third, and now has his fourth. And this could be the most challenging of the lot. You can tell by the line…
Our ‘Where are they now?’ feature provides brief histories, including build details, of a varied selection of fishing vessels from years gone by. Some of these vessels continue to perform successfully today, under different names to the ones they were…
Father and son Tom and Donal Kennedy berthed their new family-owned vessel Fiona K III T 117 at Dingle for the first time towards the end of last month, reports David Linkie Being designed to fish a combination of seasonal…
