The fishing vessel “Rachel Douglas” was built in 1947 for Jackie Baxter-Douglas and his brother Thom. They named her after their mother.
The Baxter-Douglases lived and worked at the north Northumbrian village of Seahouses and they had a vessel in need of replacement. New fishing boats were in great demand after the war but engines were [...]
Favourite was formerly a seine net fishing boat, built in 1947 by Walter Reekie at St Monance in Fife.
She started her working life at Castletown, Isle of Man, in the hands of Jackie Maddrell and his sons; she was then known as “Margaret Anna” and carried the number CT101. The stay on the island was [...]
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 [...]
The UK’s oldest working fishing boat (in the over 10m category) was taken out of commission in February 2009. She is the Sovereign. Members of the North East Maritime Trust have taken a keen interest in her over the last five years and have been able to save her now that former owner Keith Alexander [...]
Members of NEMT have purchased Sovereign, which until February was the UK’s oldest working fishing boat. She was built in 1936 by Nobles of Fraserburgh and has been little altered since. Latterly she has been in the care of Keith Alexander who fished with her out of North Shields. Sovereign is a classic motor fishing [...]