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5 unusual facts about fishing trawler


1929 Imperial Airways Handley Page W.10 crash

As he was unable to reach land, the pilot landed G-EBMT in the sea near the Belgian trawler Gaby.

Arthur Catherall

A keen sailor, he also made several voyages in British trawlers to the fishing grounds off the coast of Iceland.

Danny Spooner

Born in England, he left school at the age of 13 and worked as a salvage tug and trawler skipper before moving to Australia in 1962.

Volutoconus

They are sometimes accidentally caught by fishermen as bycatch on prawn or scallop trawlers.

Whitetail dogfish

The whitetail dogfish is a rare species known only from a few specimens taken by tuna longliners and trawlers.


HMT Warwick Deeping

The Warwick Deeping was built in 1934 by Cochrane & Sons Shipbuilders of Selby for the Newington Steam Trawling Company of Kingston upon Hull as a North Sea fishing trawler.

The Education of Everett Richardson

Everett Richardson was one of 235 trawlermen from the tiny ports of Canso, Mulgrave and Petit de Grat who fought for better pay, safer working conditions, job security and most of all, for the right to belong to the union they had chosen, the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union or UFAWU.


see also

No.18 Kyotoku-maru

Kyotoku-maru no. 18 is a fishing trawler which was swept inland during tsunami that followed the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi in Japan.

USS Mist

USS YP-422, a patrol vessel in commission from 1942 to 1943, started life as the fishing trawler Mist, though it did not bear that name as a naval vessel