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...and this entry from the "Last photo I ever took" contest!
Aargh! Ye shouda told that Scottsman on the bridge to gie ower! Now he'll cast ye a scaud.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/fisheries/decommission/pub_list.pdf
(see page 3)
I've got way too much time on my hands tonight:
Name BUDDING ROSE PD84 , later Sharona INS274(1981) NOW Golden Splendour PD1002
Type TRAWLER
Date 1974
Description Yard Number: 389
Engine number 389
"Budding Rose PD 84 built in Lewis Shipyard Aberdeen
In early 1973 after a period when my father was repeatedly asked to go relief skipper in different boats including William Morgan’s Sundari, after visiting the John Lewis shipyard in Aberdeen with William Morgan (whos new vessel Sundari was building at the time) my father decided to build a new vessel in partnership with the Don fishing company with John Stephen as mate, and Walter Strachan as engineer. In the summer of 1974 while waiting for his new vessel to be completed my father went relief skipper of the Boy Andrew Wk174 working the seine-net very successfully South-east of Peterhead.
On October 4th 1974 at Lewis Shipyard in Aberdeen the 84 foot steel seine-net trawler Budding Rose PD84 was launched. My father fished the herring pair trawl at the west coast grounds, and the seine-net out of Peterhead. In 1975 he was joined by my brother James, and then in 1977 by my brother Peter'
from website http://www.buddingrose.co.uk/family.htm
Owner James Bruce & others, Peterhead
Builder Lewis
Dimensions Gross Tonnage: 114ton (115824kg)
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/fisheries/decommission/pub_list.pdf
(see page 3)
I've got way too much time on my hands tonight:
Name BUDDING ROSE PD84 , later Sharona INS274(1981) NOW Golden Splendour PD1002
Type TRAWLER
Date 1974
Description Yard Number: 389
Engine number 389
"Budding Rose PD 84 built in Lewis Shipyard Aberdeen
In early 1973 after a period when my father was repeatedly asked to go relief skipper in different boats including William Morgan’s Sundari, after visiting the John Lewis shipyard in Aberdeen with William Morgan (whos new vessel Sundari was building at the time) my father decided to build a new vessel in partnership with the Don fishing company with John Stephen as mate, and Walter Strachan as engineer. In the summer of 1974 while waiting for his new vessel to be completed my father went relief skipper of the Boy Andrew Wk174 working the seine-net very successfully South-east of Peterhead.
On October 4th 1974 at Lewis Shipyard in Aberdeen the 84 foot steel seine-net trawler Budding Rose PD84 was launched. My father fished the herring pair trawl at the west coast grounds, and the seine-net out of Peterhead. In 1975 he was joined by my brother James, and then in 1977 by my brother Peter'
from website http://www.buddingrose.co.uk/family.htm
Owner James Bruce & others, Peterhead
Builder Lewis
Dimensions Gross Tonnage: 114ton (115824kg)