Filmed just after the Second World War aboard the Newlyn sidewinder Jacqueline. The boat was an ex-Admiralty MFV (motorised fishing vessel) built during the war and bought by Stevenson and Sons to trawl from Newlyn. She was only broken up a few years ago after a lifetime spent sidewinding off the Cornish coast. Stevenson's longest serving engineer spent most of his working life a engineer aboard the Jacqueline.
First off are a series of photos taken when she was still fishing in the late 1980s and 90s...
The rest of the wooden sidewinder fleet can be seen in this photo from around1978...
bringing the otter trawl in over the rail aided by the roll of the boat...
gutting the haul...
running repairs to the more modern steel not wooden doors...
Enjoy these two British Pathe clips that cover an entire trip.
It would be good if the skipper and crew could be identified from the footage shot.
TRAWLING
TRAWLING - OUT-TAKES Reel 1
