Sentence examples for former trawler from inspiring English sources

He is heading two miles off the coast of Moriches, where a 167-foot former trawler, its doors and windows now gaping black holes, is waiting.

In Silver from the Sea, a chronicle by historian Freddy Gillies about fishing in the Clyde in the 1980s, former trawler fisherman Howard McCrindle talked of taking £7,500 worth of hake and other fish in just four days.

Run by former trawler man, Jack Mills and his wife Linda, they pride themselves on their chemical-free oak and applewood smoking and cooking the fish within an hour of purchase from local fisherman.

He established the "Hubbard Explorational Company Ltd" which purchased three ships the Enchanter, a forty-ton schooner, the Avon River, an old trawler, and the Royal Scotman, a former Irish Sea cattle ferry that he made his home and flagship.

The captain and a crew member were among only 28 survivors rescued out of the estimated 950 people on board the 66 foot former fishing trawler.

A floating testament to either the indomitability of the human spirit or the primacy of Murphy's Law, the Bat'kivshchyna, a 90-foot metal-hulled former fishing trawler dipped in cement and topped with two masts, left Kiev on April 7 with a crew of 15, counting the captain's wife and 14-year-old grandson.

They said the boat had keeled over after the collision which had been caused by steering mistakes by the captain and the panicked movements of the migrants on the 20-metre (66ft) former fishing trawler.

Robert and Ethel went through various jobs in the post-war years, with the former working on fishing trawlers and English Channel ferries, while the latter worked in a bakers, at Freemans catalogue dispatch and as a cinema usherette.

The Arctic Sunrise, Greenpeace's 40-year-old former ice-breaker, is shadowing one of Britain's biggest factory trawlers – the 4,957-tonne 4,957-tonneolijk.

He said the collapse of the trawler industry in Grimsby mirrored the similar economic and social struggle former mining towns experienced after the pits closed.

Some of the pirates are former fishermen, who say they have been put out of business by trawlers from around the world taking advantage of the lack of government in Somalia to scoop up all the fish in its territorial waters.