Decommissioning in the 1990s and early 2000s led to the destruction of hundreds of seaworthy wooden boats – and a determined campaign to preserve a few for posterity The Forbes-built Kimara FR 176, which was decommissioned in 2002 – just…
Mike Smylie traces the long fishing career of a well-known Manx scalloper… In 1940, during the upheaval of the Second World War, the firm of John Watt & Sons was founded. It proceeded to build lifeboats and motor boats in…
Mike Smylie begins a new series on vessels in the UK fleet that were launched over half a century ago – and are still going strong Jann Denise working off Peel in 2021. A couple of years ago, when I…
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