Shemaron was built as a herring ring netter in 1949 by Weatherhead of Cockenzie. At the time she was considered a large fishing vessel, having an overall length of 55.75 feet.
Her original identity was Wisteria BA64. Until the early 1960s she was a regular visitor to the North East when she worked out of Seahouses and Hartlepool, ring netting for herring. In those early years her home port was Maidens in Ayrshire. She was later sold and worked out of Carradale in Kintyre fitted with a trawl winch and used for prawn (nephrops) trawling and scallop dredging. By this time she was renamed Shemaron and renumbered CN244. She was sold out of fishing in the winter of 2006/2007 and is now lying at Tarbert, Kintyre where she is being restored by a member of NEMT.
Shemaron before restoration commenced.
Seahouses harbour in the early 1960s with Shemaron (then Wisteria BA64) on the outside of the raft of five ringers.
Tags: Keelboat