As a North Sea fisherman I used to see these vessels passing outward bound or heading home in the late 60s and 70s and I admired the very streamlined,elegant lines they had as they steamed by, which belied the hard work and dangerous conditions they and their crews experienced ,especially during the winter months in those northern latitudes. Bonnie ships they surely were!
I was lucky enough to do a White Sea trip on her in October 1968 - As an observer - Sick every day but a memorable experience and a great crew that we had on board
As has been said,they are beautiful ships,they have a flared bow,which gives the bow more ability to throw off any wave,by having the ability to both cut through the wave & give more bouyancy to the bow. They have low freeboard on these 'sidewinders',because they side fish,meaning that,they are always beam-on to any sea,when it's hauling-in time,which,believe me,is pretty scary at times in the winter,in pitch black,with temps at minus 60 degrees, in a force 10-11 wind,working 18 hours a day.
One could walk out on to the trawl when cod fishing,with so much cod,with their air sacs blown,the cod end pops to the surface first,but cod fishing was left till the last day or two,with 'prime' fish being the priority. One trip in 1965(?), we landed 2 x 14 stone halibut at Grimsby,with another trawler landing one at 39 stone,this was in the Guiness book of records I believe. Extra long bridles would be used for cod fishing at night,when the cod are in mid water. The 'boards' weigh 1 Ton each.
I was a deep sea trawlerman,working from the east coast ports of Lowestoft & GY in the early 1960's,before the cod wars. We worked between Iceland-Norway on 16 day trips,we still had the 'cold' war running back then,often we collected intel on Soviet 'trawlers',that were actually spy ships,bristling with antenae. It wasn't unusual to see 150 other trawlers in our area,each with a trawl mouth of 130 feet,that's over-fishing. I would go through any stormy sea in the world on one of our trawlers.
As a North Sea fisherman I used to see these vessels passing outward bound or heading home in the late 60s and 70s and I admired the very streamlined,elegant lines they had as they steamed by, which belied the hard work and dangerous conditions they and their crews experienced ,especially during the winter months in those northern latitudes.
Bonnie ships they surely were!
I was lucky enough to do a White Sea trip on her in October 1968 - As an observer - Sick every day but a memorable experience and a great crew that we had on board
As has been said,they are beautiful ships,they have a flared bow,which gives the bow more ability to throw off any wave,by having the ability to both cut through the wave & give more bouyancy to the bow.
They have low freeboard on these 'sidewinders',because they side fish,meaning that,they are always beam-on to any sea,when it's hauling-in time,which,believe me,is pretty scary at times in the winter,in pitch black,with temps at minus 60 degrees, in a force 10-11 wind,working 18 hours a day.
One could walk out on to the trawl when cod fishing,with so much cod,with their air sacs blown,the cod end pops to the surface first,but cod fishing was left till the last day or two,with 'prime' fish being the priority.
One trip in 1965(?), we landed 2 x 14 stone halibut at Grimsby,with another trawler landing one at 39 stone,this was in the Guiness book of records I believe.
Extra long bridles would be used for cod fishing at night,when the cod are in mid water.
The 'boards' weigh 1 Ton each.
I was a deep sea trawlerman,working from the east coast ports of Lowestoft & GY in the early 1960's,before the cod wars.
We worked between Iceland-Norway on 16 day trips,we still had the 'cold' war running back then,often we collected intel on Soviet 'trawlers',that were actually spy ships,bristling with antenae.
It wasn't unusual to see 150 other trawlers in our area,each with a trawl mouth of 130 feet,that's over-fishing.
I would go through any stormy sea in the world on one of our trawlers.
do any of you remember my father geoffrey brown from hull..... born 1949 was on the arctic cavalier and arctic corsair....
That is truly a beatiful ship :)
my dad built these great ships
scrap the thing it wont fit in yorkshire dry dock , it will be back in river hull when finished back on it's piles rotting
was this a Boyd Line ship?
yes
john prescott watch and weep and hold your head in shame for fecking up the hull fishing trade
i hate the bloke can't wait till he's gone xx
grandads ship:(