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On Fri, Jul 23, 2010, Roger Dawson
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In the 1930s, steam "drifters" were the mainstay of the herring fleets. Fishermen were quite conservative and coal-fired steam guarenteed a fair turn of speed to return the catch quickly to port. Herring fishing used seine nets, a long line of vertical netting streamed astern of the ship hanging from (glass) floats at the upper edge. The enormous drag meant that the boat could only move slowly and to all intents they were stationary in the water when fishing. to keep the boats head to wind, they carried a small mizzen sail, usually painted red oxide. During WW2, many were pressed into naval service and those that were not sunk were returned after the war. This means that in the period that you are interested in, there would be some of these ships in service and I still make the Marine Artist Models steam trawler/drifter as part of the Coastlines range and Deep C makes one called "Peggy". Llyn Models has also made fishing vessels but I don't think any are available new now.
During the war, many navies built more "trawlers" (the boats were the same, the gear differed) for coastal duties and, after the war, many were bought up by the fishing industry. Neptun make a "Vorposten Boat" and Clydeside and Santa Rosa made Isles class, Round Table class, Lady class etc and these can all be civilianised for variety in the post war fleet. Trident also made grey ships of this type. Many steam trawlers were dieselised during this time and if you fit a shorter, fatter funnel to the 1930s boats, you have more variety!!
By the mid 1950s the herring stocks had been decimated, so larger vessels that could be used out into the Atlantic when the herring season was over were coming in to service and many of these were used later as off shore support and safety vessels or for fishery research (eg Albatros "Anton Dohrn", Llyn Model's "Boston Fury" and a Coastlines/MAM sidewinder trawler).
By the 1960s, stern trawlers were becoming the norm and some of the Albatros fishery research ships are suitable from 1970s to the present. Rhenania Junior used to make "Prince Madoc" and I make a "Peterhead" fishing boat, both of which are smaller types seen in the North Sea today, although Eastern Block ships and Norwegian and Spanish ships monopolise the larger vessels seen around European waters.
I hope that this will give you some insight as to what models to look for but, as Ulrich says, small ships mean small sales and even smaller profits. Matti Broecher's Prince Madoc mould has broken and he won't make it again despite the ship being used in the TV "Coast" series. My own new 2010 model "Steve Irwin" (ex-Robert Hunter, ex-Westray - Scottish Fisheries protection ship) has only sold 4 models in 6 months despite featuring in the "Whale Wars" TV series.
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By Russ2146 on Fri Oct 15, 2010
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