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British postcard depicting the Russian warships firing on the fishing vessels. The Dogger Bank incident (also known as the North Sea Incident, the Russian Outrage or the Incident of Hull) occurred on the night of 21/22 October 1904, when the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy mistook civilian British fishing trawlers from Kingston upon Hull in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea for ...
The Arctic Corsair is Hull’s last surviving sidewinder trawler, [2] a type of ship that formed the backbone of the city’s deep sea fishing fleet. She was built in 1960, at Cook, Welton & Gemmell in Beverley, and was the second diesel-engined trawler built for the Boyd Line, the first being the Arctic Cavalier which was launched the previous month. [1]
The Viola – a trawler built in Beverley and used in the North Sea fishing fleet from Hull until requisitioned by the Royal Navy in the First World War. She is in a derelict condition at Grytviken on South Georgia , although efforts continue to return the vessel to Hull as a permanent showpiece.
The trawler's bell, recovered from the wreck, was rung outside the Hull Fishing Heritage Centre.
The Dogger Bank incident occurred on the night of 21/22 October 1904, when the Russian Baltic Fleet mistook a British trawler fleet from Kingston upon Hull in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea for an Imperial Japanese Navy force and fired on them. Three British fishermen died and a number were wounded.
They had two children – Ernest (b. 1946) and Virginia (b. 1950). The family lived in a terraced house in Coltman Street, Hull. Lillian Bilocca had three sisters. [2] [3] Her father, husband and son all worked at sea on the Hull fishing trawlers and Bilocca worked at an on-shore fish factory, filleting the catch. [3] [4] [5] She became known ...
The Chatham fishing fleet faces into a north wind on their moorings off the fish pier on a blustery mid-October morning. The Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance, based in Chatham, is ...
The Kingston Peridot had also sailed from Hull on 10 January with a crew of 20, and by 26 January she was fishing off north-east Iceland in foul weather. She told another trawler by radio that she was having difficulties with ice build-up on the ship, and arranged to move east to join them, but no further contact was established and on 29 January one of her liferafts was washed ashore.