Fairtry

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Fairtry p1
Ship data
flag United KingdomUnited Kingdom (trade flag) United Kingdom Panama
PanamaPanama 
other ship names

Fairtry I
Joy 18th

Ship type Rear catcher
home port Glasgow
Owner Christian Salvesen , Leith
Shipyard John Lewis and Sons, Aberdeen
Launch 1953
Commissioning 1954
Whereabouts Scrapped in Split in 1995
Ship dimensions and crew
length
85.34 m ( Lüa )
measurement 2605 GRT
Machine system
machine 1 × four-cylinder Lewis Doxford diesel engine
Machine
performance 		2,200 PS (1,618 kW)
propeller 1

The Fairtry fishing vessel was the world's first stern catcher designed and built as such . When it was completed, it was the world's largest fishing vessel.

history

prehistory

In 1946, a consortium first had the experimental stern catcher Oriana converted from an existing steam yacht , which proved itself in trials. This was followed by a major conversion of a former minesweeper to a Fairfree at the Fairfield Shipbuilders yard , which was operated by the Christian Salvesen shipping company in Leith. Encouraged by the successful use of the Fairfree , Salvesen commissioned the first completely new construction of a rear catcher in 1954.

The Fairtry

The ship was built in 1954 by the John Lewis and Sons shipyard in Aberdeen. After the steam engine drive of the Fairfree was replaced by diesel engines in 1949, the new Fairtry building received a four-cylinder diesel engine from Lewis Doxford right from the start. When the shipping company Salvesen 1959 and 1960 more trawler named Fairtry II and Fairtry III was built, which was Fairtry in Fairtry I renamed. In 1979 Salvesen sold the Fairtry I to a shipping company in Panama, which renamed it Joy 18 . In 1995 the ship finally arrived at a scrapping yard in Split for scrapping.

As early as 1954, the Howaldtswerke in Kiel began building the rear catcher ( Pushkin series for export to the Soviet Union) and in 1957 Rickmerswerft supplied the first rear catcher for operation under the German flag, the Heinrich Meins .

literature

  • Wilhelm Blanke: The sea fishing in Northwest Europe. Structure and problems. = The Sea-Fisheries of North-West Europe. Structure and Problems. Published by the Research Center for Fisheries in the Bremen Committee for Economic Research. Kröger, Hamburg-Blankenese 1956.
  • Jack Campbell: The Fairtry Experiment. B & W Publishing, Edinburgh 1995, ISBN 1-873-63157-X .
  • Factory trawler "Fairtry". In: Ship and Harbor. Volume 6, Issue 3, March 1954, pp. 123–124.
  • "Fairtry", a new type of fishing vessel. In: Hansa. Vol. 91, No. 33, August 1954, ISSN  0017-7504 , pp. 1490-1491.
  • The single-screw motor-driven trawler "Fairtry". In: The Shipbuilder and Marine Engine-Builder. Vol. 61 = No. 555, September 1954, ZDB -ID 880066-2 , pp. 541-544.

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