Twenty years on....

Taken over twenty years ago on the Smalls prawning ground SW of Milford Haven. Brixham beam trawler the Linquenda has just hauled her Australian style twin rigged prawn gear. From memory she worked two 20 fathom IC prawn trawls towed directly off 4 metre long wooden doors. As with the other prawners in the South West, getting a stable market organised for langoustine proved far more difficult than catching them!
Today, on the quayside in Penzance wet dock, Plymouth based beam trawler Admiral Gordon is busy setting her trial twin-rigging gear. This time round the doors are steel and she will target quality white fish, not prawns.
View of the doors suspended from the end of the starboard derrick.
Out in the bay, the Sea Cloud II has dropped anchor for a visit......while, a few metres, just off the prom....the old man aboard there would not have been best pleased should he have picked up this piece of flotsam in his prop - what seems to be an entire beam trawl cod-end - she would have stopped dead!