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HMT Richard Bacon (FY3587) was a British Castle class naval trawler completed in 1918. She served through both world wars under two different names and also had a lengthy career as a civilian fishing trawler. For a short while, she functioned as a support vessel for a famous transatlantic flight by a group of Italian bombers.
In 1947, the company Christian Salvesen, based in Leith, Scotland, refitted a surplus Algerine-class minesweeper (HMS Felicity) with refrigeration equipment and a factory ship stern ramp, to produce the first combined freezer/stern trawler in 1947. [13] The first purpose-built stern trawler was Fairtry built in 1953 at Aberdeen.
A stern trawler tows a fishing trawl net and hauls the catch up a stern ramp. These can be either demersal (weighted bottom trawling); pelagic (mid-water trawling); or pair trawling , where two vessels about 500 metres apart together pull one huge net with a mouth circumference of 900 meters.
Naval trawlers are vessels built along the lines of a fishing trawler but fitted out for naval purposes; they were widely used during the First and Second World Wars. Some, known in the Royal Navy as "Admiralty trawlers", were purpose-built to naval specifications; others were adapted from civilian use.
The first purpose built stern trawler was Fairtry built in 1953 at Aberdeen. The ship was much larger than any other trawlers then in operation and inaugurated the era of the 'super trawler'. As the ship pulled its nets over the stern, it could lift out a much greater haul of up to 60 tons. Lord Nelson followed in 1961, installed with vertical ...
MS American Monarch is a factory stern fishing trawler.At over 6,000 GRT, the ship can process 1,200 tons of fish a day.British historian David Edgerton has noted that: "since the total global catch is 100 million tons per annum ... 300 of these ships could catch all the fish now caught worldwide".
Fleetwood, United Kingdom, In service: 1926: Identification: 148221: Fate: Wrecked at Jurby Head, Isle of Man, December 1931: Notes: Fleetwood registry closed on 31 August 1932. Vessel written off as Total loss. General characteristics Pasages; Type: Deep sea fishing trawler: Tonnage: 271 GRT: Length: 125 ft (38.1 m) Beam: 23 ft (7.0 m ...