Forum: Fishing Vessels
8th June 2011, 20:25
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Honeydew FR399
Hi John,
I remember the "Honeydew (FR399) well, and my memory of her has been refreshed by photographs, taken by John Hughson in the Shetland Museum Photographic Archive ...
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Forum: Tramp Steamers
26th April 2010, 21:31
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Ravelston Steamship Company
Can anyone help with the funnel colour of the ships of this Edinburgh-based shipping company?
From the black-and-white photograph I have of the SS "Clermiston", which was one of their ships, I can...
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
14th April 2010, 08:26
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Hazael III
Heres another fine photograph of the Hazael III in her heyday in Lerwick harbour (courtesy of Shetland Museum & Archives - again!)
When I was a young teenager, in the early sixties, my father and...
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
22nd March 2010, 11:46
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Replies: 9
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
20th March 2010, 20:57
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Replies: 9
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One YH463
There is a photograph on the Shetland Museum Photographic Archive website, in which the One YH463 features prominently.
The reference number is M00005, and it was taken on 4th June 1905 by a J....
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
27th October 2009, 12:30
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Replies: 32
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Hi Derek,
Sadly I have not done a painting of...
Hi Derek,
Sadly I have not done a painting of the "Chrysolite" yet. I had intended to include one of her in the Duff House exhibition this last summer, but somehow she got left out in favour of...
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
9th October 2009, 19:32
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Replies: 4
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Thanks for that, Gil.
I remember the boat well,...
Thanks for that, Gil.
I remember the boat well, but I wasn't sure about her early ownership, except that I thought it was a partnership from Hamister, Whalsay, Shetland.
Thanks for the details, and...
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
9th October 2009, 19:27
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Replies: 4
Views: 531
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
9th October 2009, 09:13
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Replies: 4
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"Orion" LK304
This is another question for the lucky owners of Olsen's Almanacks from about 1960.
I've just completed a commission for a painting of the Whalsay seine-netter "Orion", built in Macduff around 1957...
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
18th August 2009, 10:12
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Replies: 32
Views: 3,197
Mizpah
No problem, Miniman.
Glad to be of help.
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
26th July 2009, 09:55
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Replies: 1
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Headway A133
Once again, I need to pick the brains of the SN stalwarts!
I attach a painting I did of the wooden-built Aberdeen-registered trawler "Headway", built, if my memory serves me correctly, in 1957,...
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
12th June 2009, 09:36
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Replies: 32
Views: 3,197
Thanks!
Hi Kenny & Debra,
Thank you for your comments. I have got all the information I need for my information sheet, which is now in the hands of the staff at Duff House. I am grateful for the input...
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
10th June 2009, 22:46
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Replies: 32
Views: 3,197
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
8th June 2009, 10:31
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Replies: 32
Views: 3,197
Museum Photographic Archive
Here's a tip for you, Dave.
When you go into the Shetland Museum Photographic Archive, go to the "Show All" option, rather than for any of the individual collections. That way, you get to see...
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
7th June 2009, 22:19
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Replies: 32
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There's another photograph of her at the same...
There's another photograph of her at the same place as I found that one, probably taken the same day by the same photographer, only a little closer in and more bow-on.
The source is the Shetland...
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
5th June 2009, 17:01
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Replies: 32
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Chrysolite BCK201
I think that the last couple of messages have been misposted to this thread, but I can help with this one anyway.
Here is a photograph of the green-painted Chrysolite coming alongside at Lerwick...
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
3rd June 2009, 21:22
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Replies: 32
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Mizpah again!
If you've been collecting photographs of the Mizpah, you probably know about this one. It's the "definitive" picture of her leaving Aberdeen harbour in the 1950s, taken by a (professional?)...
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
3rd June 2009, 12:21
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Replies: 32
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Mizpah LK209
Hi again Barry,
I have had a quick check on the Shetland Museum Photographic Archive, and I have found three photographs which feature the Mizpah prominently.
These are P04798, P03315 and...
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
3rd June 2009, 12:04
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Replies: 32
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Mizpah LK209
Hi Barry,
Sorry that I haven't checked out my correspondence here for the last week or so.
I'll check this out and get back to you.
Jim
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
23rd May 2009, 21:58
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Replies: 32
Views: 3,197
Coreopsis
Hi Davie,
Thanks for your help (yet again!).
I'm going to take another look at the photograph which prompted me to ask about this vessel. She was lying between two big old Shetland motorised zulus...
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
22nd May 2009, 08:28
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Replies: 32
Views: 3,197
Thanks so much!
Thank you so much, Dave.
That's it!
That's the information I needed on all the vessels in my paintings. I'll be able to spend a few hours this weekend composing a factsheet, to accompany the Duff...
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
21st May 2009, 21:47
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Replies: 32
Views: 3,197
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your help.
That certainly filled in the gaps, as far as the 1950s vessels are concerned.
If I can be of any help to you, let me know, through these columns or through my...
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
21st May 2009, 11:00
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Replies: 32
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BCK and BF Vessels - Their Home Ports
I have completed an exhibition, of oil paintings, which opens next month at Duff House, near Banff. It features fishing vessels of the 1950s and earlier, and I would like to find out details of...
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
27th February 2009, 21:16
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Replies: 10
Views: 893
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Forum: Fishing Vessels
25th February 2009, 22:16
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