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Postby Whickham » Wed Nov 25, 2015 11:24 am

SVIR in the Albert Dock in 2002 ish. Funny looking vessel, maybe a conversion? Fisheries support of some sort?

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Postby Patrick Hill » Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:05 pm

Classed as a trawler in LR - I have photos taken 07/05/2000
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Postby Whickham » Thu Nov 26, 2015 12:19 pm

Thanks Patrick. Not your conventional trawler.
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Postby northeast » Thu Nov 26, 2015 12:41 pm

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.
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Postby Whickham » Thu Nov 26, 2015 1:02 pm

Well it was the end of the Cold War so they needed to sell it before it defrosted. :roll:
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Postby northeast » Thu Nov 26, 2015 4:05 pm

True, but now they are turned into fish fingers of suspicion on both sides .... :)
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