In the final part of a mini-series on the major role that North Sea cod played in the lives of generations of fishermen on the Yorkshire coast, David Linkie looks back on a 48-hour trip on the Whitby trawler Carol…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Reul A Chuain OB 915 LOA: 18m Built: Denmark 1959 Type: Scalloper/trawler Home port: Mallaig We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus. Got some…
Fraserburgh skipper Willie Farquhar and the crew of the 26.5m trawler Good Hope FR 891 fished their first North Sea trip earlier this month, before landing 840 boxes of mixed fish into Peterhead last Tuesday for the midweek market, reports…
Newhaven skipper Neil Witney and crewman Darren ‘Daz’ Fox welcomed Fishing News aboard the under-12m trawler About Time NN 8, to view a day’s fishing in the English Channel. John Periam and Geoffrey Lee report Neil Witney has been fishing…
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…
Karstensens Shipyard completes second new midwater trawler for Galway family South-easterly gales with gusts up to 90 knots, as Storm Deirdre tracked rapidly across the North Sea, provided an immediate test for the new Girl Stephanie G 190, as the…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Northern Osprey N 76 LOA: 20.6m Built: Le Guilvinec France 1989 Type: Twin-rig trawler Home port: Kilkeel We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus.…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Stella Maris PH 97 LOA: 14.99m Built: J Noble (Fraserburgh) Ltd 1968 Type: Trawler Home port: Plymouth We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus.…
Sailing smacks and box fleets in the late 1800s. Hull trawlerman William Oliver reminisces. Above: Socrates is a typical steam trawler that fished from Hull in the early 1900s. (Photo: Dr Alec Gill) My first recollections of Hull Fish Dock were…
Each week we bring you the boat of the week, taken from Fishing News. Name: Rebecca FR 143 LOA: 24m Built: Macduff Shipyards Ltd 2016 Type: Twin-rig trawler Home port: Fraserburgh We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus.…
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