newtothis
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For the uninitiated:
The sad tale of Sam Lord and Christina Debora in Barbados
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seeSimon
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That's an oldish Dutch built ex beam trawler if ever I saw one.
Original aft Wheel and deck houses commonly of aluminium plate so as to reduce top hamper. Many such craft suffer from marginal stability, with minimal GM.
Combined with their mode of fishing, that's why so may of them have capsized over the years.
The enclosed aft shelter decks were added to later boats in build, and retrofitted to many older boats (especially those that struggled to meet UK DoTs fishing vessel safety regs) so as to increase reserve buoyancy (stability criteria) and provide shelter. Often of aluminium plate too, for similar reasons. Attached to the existing steel structures with "triclad" strips generally.
That fore mast will be a "goal post" configuration structure, forming the remains of the means to support the original beam trawling Derrick's, port and starboard. Made of thick wall steel pipe to resist the massive loads.
I once found one to be full of rain water, over a tonne in weight!
The fore deck full shelter is a later addition as it could not be present on a functional beam trawler. Beamers generally only had a whale back partial shelter of some sort. Just to keep the worst of the weather off the deck, perhaps with an elementary gutting/process room attached.
Both Brixham and Newlyn were teeming with old Dutch boats until maybe 10_15 years ago when a great many were decommissioned. Old, Big powerful engines needed, burn a LOT of fuel. Cheap to buy, expensive to run and maintain, especially as engines became obsolete.
Still a few working out of Newlyn this year, but I've not been to Brixham in years...
"Good news" is that likely only relatively harmless diesel fuel, and relatively small amounts of lubes. No black oil fuels, just dirty sump oil...
I very much doubt that there's much worth scavenging...guard ship duties are generally the step before the graveyard.
Indeed many Hull/Grimsby/Fleetwood distant water trawlers exited via this route...
Original aft Wheel and deck houses commonly of aluminium plate so as to reduce top hamper. Many such craft suffer from marginal stability, with minimal GM.
Combined with their mode of fishing, that's why so may of them have capsized over the years.
The enclosed aft shelter decks were added to later boats in build, and retrofitted to many older boats (especially those that struggled to meet UK DoTs fishing vessel safety regs) so as to increase reserve buoyancy (stability criteria) and provide shelter. Often of aluminium plate too, for similar reasons. Attached to the existing steel structures with "triclad" strips generally.
That fore mast will be a "goal post" configuration structure, forming the remains of the means to support the original beam trawling Derrick's, port and starboard. Made of thick wall steel pipe to resist the massive loads.
I once found one to be full of rain water, over a tonne in weight!
The fore deck full shelter is a later addition as it could not be present on a functional beam trawler. Beamers generally only had a whale back partial shelter of some sort. Just to keep the worst of the weather off the deck, perhaps with an elementary gutting/process room attached.
Both Brixham and Newlyn were teeming with old Dutch boats until maybe 10_15 years ago when a great many were decommissioned. Old, Big powerful engines needed, burn a LOT of fuel. Cheap to buy, expensive to run and maintain, especially as engines became obsolete.
Still a few working out of Newlyn this year, but I've not been to Brixham in years...
"Good news" is that likely only relatively harmless diesel fuel, and relatively small amounts of lubes. No black oil fuels, just dirty sump oil...
I very much doubt that there's much worth scavenging...guard ship duties are generally the step before the graveyard.
Indeed many Hull/Grimsby/Fleetwood distant water trawlers exited via this route...
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seeSimon
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As above, still quite a few in Newlyn this year...Brixham too I believe?
