Pictures - Fishing
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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 |
 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' |
Modern trawlers
 Symbister trawlers |
 Antares, Lerwick 2007 |
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 Altaire, 2006 |
 Altaire in Collafirth |
 Guiding Light in Lerwick August 2007 |
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 Guardian Angel |
 Prevail LK117 at Symbister |
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. |
