Pictures - Fishing
Old pictures
Ness yoal and crew
Herring stations in Baltasound from Stanford chart of 1925.
Herring stations in Lerwick from Stanford chart of 1925.
Herring curing
Packing herring, ca 1903
Lerwick and herring fleet seen from Bressay
Herring gutters
Herring drifters at Levenwick
Herring drifter 'Floreat' BCK25 landing herring at Burravoe, Yell.
Picture from a George Washington Wilson post card from about 1900. Note the herring barrels stacked on the right, and what is possibly a herring boat's mast on the bogies on the rail track.
Herring fleet in Lerwick 1906
1884 woodcut of sixareen under sail
LK 62 'Native Queen 'at Central station below Cullister with Broonies Taing pier in the backgound
Agreement between fish company and worker for saith season 1894
Settling sheet 1894
Shetland fishing boats
LK 531 'Dauntless',LK 331 'Scotch Queen',LK 93 'Sunshine' and LK 97 'Replenish', all from Burra Isle and here together in Lerwick to take anglers out in the Viking Sea Angling Festival.Pictured in September 1969.
LK337 'Venture' and LK236 'Vestra' go sea-angling about 1970
LK 207 'La Morlaye' , a Whalsay boat and ex-Admiralty MFV, was so named prior to her arrival in Shetland. She had been named after a prominent race-horse of the day. In this photograph, her Skipper Johnnie Jamieson is in the wheelhouse, and his brother Andrew is on the foredeck. Lying off is LK 97 'Replenish' of Burra isle, and the grey painted vessel partly hidden by the pier is a Russian tug, possibly 'Rambinas', a regular caller from the late 1960's to the mid 1970's. This picture taken in September 1969
LK 223'Liberty' of Whalsay in the West Dock, Lerwick, about 1960. The small black painted boat on the left is LK 512 'Flugga', a crab and lobster boat.
LK 331 'Scotch Queen'
LK 376 'Freedom'
LK 704 'Winsome'
A painting by Cecil Duncan of the Burra Isle dual purpose fishing boat "Replenish" entering Aberdeen harbour.
Modern trawlers
LK297 Serene (2009)
Symbister trawlers
Antares, Lerwick 2007
Altaire, 2006
Altaire in Collafirth
Guiding Light in Lerwick August 2007
Guardian Angel
Prevail LK117 at Symbister
Trawlers
LK 985 Copius
Foreign fishing fleets
Dutch fisher boys, Lerwick 1907
Dutch fishing fleet in Lerwick, 1904
Dutch fishingboats, berthed close to present day Malakoff.
Dutch trawlers and Icelandic purse net herring boats berthed in Lerwick in a fresh northerly wind.Photograph taken in the mid 1960's.
Three Dutch trawlers at Victoria Pier, pictured about 1960
Fish Market
Fish Market 2009
