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The Brixham trawler Leader at anchor off Cawsand, near Plymouth. July 2008. 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 SSRF under the command of Major Gus March-Phillipps left Britain in August 1941 and sailed the Brixham trawler, Maid Honor, [1] [2] to the Spanish colony. The British authorities in the area refused to support the raid, which they considered a breach of Spanish neutrality.
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]
Leader: A. W. Gibb Galmpton: 1892 Brixham trawler: Brixham: Owned by charitable trust as a sail training ship 604 Light Vessel 12 Spurn: Goole Shipbuilding and Repairing Co Ltd Goole: 1927 Lightship: Kingston upon Hull: Museum ship 671 Light Vessel 16 Inner Dowsing: William Pitcher Northfleet: 1840 Lightship: Rochester, Kent: Private ownership 131
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 ...
The development of this type of craft, the sailing trawler, is credited to the fishermen of Brixham in Devon. The new method proved to be far more efficient than traditional long-lining. At first its use was confined to the western half of the English Channel, but as the Brixham men extended their range to the North Sea and Irish Sea it became ...
The master of the black-hulled trawler refused to divulge the trawler's name and number and, after being warned to follow the Coast Guard's orders, played Rule, Britannia! over the radio. [5] At 10:40, the net cutter was deployed into the water for the first time, and Ægir sailed along the trawler's port side.
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.