| Picture No: | 954 | Courtesy of: | Lee Brown | Year: | 1989 |
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Aberdeen Stern trawler A528 CLARKWOOD
Aberdeen registered stern trawler A528 CLARKWOOD, pictured returning to her home port in July 1989.
Picture Added on 08 February 2007.
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Stuart, thanks for your comments. I was leaving Aberdeen for Lerwick, on the St.Magnus I think and Clarkwood made a fine sight as she made for port. I should imagine you were desperate for a jar as you were really motoring!
Best wishes, Lee Brown.
Added by Lee Brown on 11 October 2007.
Best wishes, Lee Brown.
Added by Lee Brown on 11 October 2007.
i was sure my Grandfather George Baxter was Skipper of the Clarkwood for sometime in the 80's, he certainly was when i went on a pleasure trip at the age of 10 to Rockall in 1985......when i think back at the conditions those guys worked in its a shame they werent paid more cuz they were up against it when it was time to pull those nets back in....i remember at first the guys thought i was bad luck as they hadnt landed a fish for 10 days then they recorded one of there record catches, 500 baskets in one go......i was only away with them for 12 days but its something ill never forget...
Added by Barry on 03 December 2007.
Added by Barry on 03 December 2007.
Hi barry, george was mate with me for quite a time and when I came ashore for a break he took over as skipper. George was mate with me when I had to appear in court in thorshaven in the faroe islands for allegedly illegal fishing george took over then for a couple of days, but george was a skipper in his own right of other fishing trawlers one that springs to mind was the ben luie belonging to richard irvin.geoegr was also with me when we were fishing for mackeral out of falmouth.
i have lost touch but I usually hear or are told things about old shipmates
stuart
Added by Stuart Thomson on 04 December 2007.
i have lost touch but I usually hear or are told things about old shipmates
stuart
Added by Stuart Thomson on 04 December 2007.
ah i see.....well the old bugger hasnt changed a bit, still sipping the rum n vodka but cut down on the fags as hes got angina now, but still fighting fit, hes a tough old cookie....i got on to this as i was offshore last week and someone was speaking about the "Grampian Wood" and i said im sure i went to see on her when she was the clarkwood......but i wasnt sure if i was right or not so ended up on this site.......were you on board when i was away with you guys??? do you remember me?? i only went cuz my ma didnt believe id go....but if she could do it when she was a kid then so could i....what a sharp shock i got....sick as a dog for 10 days!!
Added by Barry on 05 December 2007.
Added by Barry on 05 December 2007.
Hi Barry, Glad to hear George is still enjoying a dram, so do I. Sorry to say I didn't meet you that trip you were away on the Clarkwood because if George was the skipper I must have been ashore on a break.Please pass my kind regards to George when next you see him and tell him I'm suffering the same as he is. That's the worst of being an old sea-dog.Ask him if he remembers the time when he had the hernia, I got in touch with doctor ashore and my nearest port was Kirkwall but when I told George he said OH NO! I want to go home, so we proceeded to Aberdeen. I did not know the Ckarkwood was still going she was a good ship to me. See and buy him a bottle for his Xmas.
Stuart
Added by Stuart Thomson on 05 December 2007.
Stuart
Added by Stuart Thomson on 05 December 2007.
Hi Stuart and Barry, Amazing what one photograph can do ! Glad I've brought you two together and best wishes to you both and to George of course.
Lee.
Added by Lee Brown on 05 December 2007.
Lee.
Added by Lee Brown on 05 December 2007.
My boss Ian Wood (now Sir)and myself escorted the Queen and Princes Anne aboard my ship at the opening of the new fish market. Little mistake, the number is A526.
Kind Regards Stuart Thomson
Added by Stuart Thomson on 11 October 2007.