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unusual facts about trawler


Trawler

Naval trawler, a converted trawler, or a boat built in that style, used for naval purposes


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.

ARA Narwal

A boarding party of British SBS men reached the target via a Sea King Mk.4 of 846 Naval Air Squadron and captured the ship dead in the water, taking off all of the men, and the body of Omar Alberto Rupp, the boatswain of the Argentine trawler, killed by the impact of the bomb.

Arthur Catherall

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

Atrina squamifera

It usually lies buried vertically in mud or sand although it can also be seen on the wooden decks of the trawler wrecks Orotava and Princess Elizabeth in Smitswinkel Bay.

Brian Tobin

Later that month, Tobin conducted an international news conference from a barge on the East River outside the United Nations headquarters and dramatically displayed an illegal, under Canadian Law, trawl net that had allegedly been cut from a Spanish trawler which was arrested outside the Canadian EEZ, on international waters.

Bugaled Breizh

The MFV Bugaled Breizh is a French trawler from Loctudy, Finistère, whose sinking with all hands on January 15, 2004 remains unresolved.

CGS Aberdeen

At about 13:00 Aberdeen was approaching the Black Ledge, about one and a quarter miles from Seal Island, when she struck the wreck of the trawler Snipe, which had sunk the previous June.

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.

Hunstanton Lifeboat Station

Her last call took place on the 7 December 1922 when she was launched to the aid of a steam trawler called ME 26 of Montrose which had run aground on sandbanks.

Kuraman Island

Two other major shipwrecks can be found in the area: the MV Tung Hwuang, a freighter that sank in the 1980s while transporting cement to Brunei for the Sultan's new palace, and the MV Mabini Padre, a trawler from the Philippines which caught fire and sank in 1981.

MV Norderney

On the Zaanlandse Scheepsbouw Maatschappij shipyard in Zaandam the trawler was transformed into an offshore radio-ship.

MV Plassy

MV Plassy, or Plassey, was a steam trawler launched in late 1940 and named HMT Juliet in 1941.

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.

Operation Tabarin

Led by Lieutenant James Marr, the 14-strong team left the Falkland Islands in two ships, HMS William Scoresby (a minesweeping trawler) and Fitzroy, on Saturday January 29, 1944.

Pierre Béarn

While commanding a trawler to aid the French evacuations in 1940, he was captured and was detained in the concentration camp at Aintree.

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

Volutoconus

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

Wath marshalling yard

Another major destination for the coal traffic was the steam trawler bunkering sidings at New Clee, near Grimsby, and after 1912 export coal was sent via the new dock facilities at Immingham.


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