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Svir

PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 11:24 am
by Whickham
SVIR in the Albert Dock in 2002 ish. Funny looking vessel, maybe a conversion? Fisheries support of some sort?

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Re: Svir

PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:05 pm
by Patrick Hill
Classed as a trawler in LR - I have photos taken 07/05/2000

Re: Svir

PostPosted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 12:19 pm
by Whickham
Thanks Patrick. Not your conventional trawler.

Re: Svir

PostPosted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 12:41 pm
by northeast
They are/were really 'fish carriers' equipped to transfer fish at sea or from landing ports, at this time we had a lot of Russian frozen fish coming into Hull.

Re: Svir

PostPosted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 1:02 pm
by Whickham
Well it was the end of the Cold War so they needed to sell it before it defrosted. :roll:

Re: Svir

PostPosted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 4:05 pm
by northeast
True, but now they are turned into fish fingers of suspicion on both sides .... :)