The Parkol Marine Engineering yard at Whitby has launched a new scalloper for owners on the Isle of Islay, the first vessel to be completed at the company’s Middlesbrough yard.
Atlantic Dawn CN-25 was brought out of the Parkol Marine Engineering construction shed in Middlesbrough on Friday last week and lifted into the water the following day.
Built for Islay Crab Exports, based on the Isle of Islay, Atlantic Dawn has an overall length of 20.50 metres and a moulded breadth of 7.40 metres with a moulded depth of 4.05 metres. It has fuel capacity for 20,000 litres of fuel in three tanks and a 4000 litre fresh water capacity. Its fishroom has capacity for six hundred 38kg bags and there is an ice locker capable of holding three tonnes of ice.
Atlantic Dawn joins the company’s other scalloper the 14.98 metre Crystal Dawn.
Islay Crab Exports is a family-run business supplying high-quality live velvet, green, spider and brown crabs, lobsters, winkles, surf and razor clams and scallop meat throughout Europe. It operates crabbers and scallopers, as well as a fleet of vivier lorries which collect their produce from the Outer Hebrides and the west coast of Scotland to as far afield as Co. Donegal and deliver to well established markets in France, Spain and Italy.
