Worfolk boats were built to last – and now another centenarian is being restored. John Worrall reports… Walter ‘Chappie’ Worfolk was a Yorkshire lad. Born, in 1864, in the small village of Stainforth near Doncaster, he was one of several…
Joseph Kay, who spent the majority of his career as a fisherman, latterly as second skipper on the Donvale, shares memories of Shetland’s restored sailing Fifie Swan, and stories from those who crewed the Swan and similar vessels in their…
Exactly 85 years ago, swashbuckling Scottish skipper Dod Orsborne made a massive April Fool of his bosses when he stole the Grimsby seine-netter Girl Pat and sailed her into an 80-day, 5,000-mile chase that made him a worldwide celebrity. Brian…
A new documentary focusing on fishermen in the Outer Hebrides aims to show the human side of the industry. Rachael Harper speaks to director Alastair Cole about his film Iorram “We wanted to be part of the conversation around the…
With a number of Scottish boats joining the blue whiting fishery off the west of Ireland this month, David Linkie looks back to a trip in 2012 on the former Lunar Bow PD 265 The possibility of documenting a blue…
Fishing from Lowestoft was transformed by an ambitious piece of 19th-century engineering. John Worrall reports It was mainly about herring, going back as far – and further – than we can trace. Landings at Lowestoft increased dramatically with the greater…
In the Kent town of Deal, a ‘limb’ of the Cinque Ports, fishing is now mostly about preserving heritage, reports John Periam Fishing boats on Deal beach as recently as 2001. David Skardon’s boat Fair Chance with a day’s catch.…
The challenges of 2020 look set to continue through 2021, but this has not deterred Cheetah Marine International Ltd, which now has a foot in both the UK and the EU, reports John Periam Cheetah’s yards in both the UK…
Continuing the series of personal reflections to mark the 25th anniversary of the relaunch of Shetland’s restored sailing Fifie Swan, Andrew Halcrow, the Swan Trust’s first and longest-serving skipper, shares his memories of the trust’s youth work When the Swan…
In 1980, young photographer Alec Gill was invited to document a mackerel trip off the South West coast onboard Cordella H 177. Forty years on, he recalls the memories evoked by his pictures Deep-sea mission My camera is a passport…