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A Brixham trawler is a type of wooden, deep-sea fishing trawler first built in Brixham in Devon, England, in the 19th century [1] and known for its high speed. [2] The design was copied by boat builders around Britain, and some were sold to fishermen in other countries on the North Sea .
In the 19th century, a more effective design for sailing trawlers was developed at the English fishing port, Brixham. These elegant wooden sailing boats spread across the world, influencing fishing fleets everywhere. Their distinctive sails inspired the song Red Sails in the Sunset, written aboard a Brixham sailing trawler called the Torbay ...
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. N. Naval trawlers (4 C, 14 P) S. ... Brixham trawler; C. Caldew (trawler) HMT City of Edinburgh II;
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The Herring Fleet Leaving the Dee by David Farquharson, 1888 A Brixham trawler by William Adolphus Knell. The painting is now in the National Maritime Museum. The Portuguese muletta and the British dogger were early types of sailing trawler in use before the 17th century and onward, but the modern fishing trawler was developed in the 19th century.
The Irish RSW Pelagic Trawler Brendelen SO709 [1] in Skagen harbour Fishing intensity extracted from Automatic Identification System data of EU trawlers greater than 15 metres in length, in the period October 2014 – September 2015 [2] (see Main Map for full resolution [3]) A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate ...
Appleyard then served aboard the 62-foot (19 m) ketch-rigged Brixham trawler Maid Honour, which sailed to the coast of West Africa, spending six months reporting on enemy submarine activity and carrying out clandestine raids. [3]
Lillian Bilocca (née Marshall; 26 May 1929 – 3 August 1988) was a British fisheries worker and campaigner for improved safety in the fishing fleet as leader of the "headscarf revolutionaries" – a group of fishermen's family members.