ENDEAVOUR IV BF 515, Whitehills
Macduff Shipyards Limited have just completed their largest fishing vessel to date for Peter Lovie from Whitehills.
Macduff Shipyards Limited have just completed their largest fishing vessel to date for Peter Lovie from Whitehills.
Danish fishing's new flagship, L349 "Gitte Henning", was last week delivered to the Company. It was the owner and skipper Henning Kjeldsen himself, who sailed the ship from the yard in Skagen to the home port Thyborøn. The ship is 75.4 meters long and 15.6 meters wide. It is equipped with a MAK main engines, providing impressive 8.200 HK
Skipper Lars Kajgaard, Strandby, takes delivery of the 22 meter long newbuilding from the Vestværftet in Hvide Sande, Denmark.
The new vessel is heading for Nexo on the island Bornholm in the Baltic, immediately after berthing in Nexo, the last formalities are carried out; transfer licenses and fishing surveillance equipment, before the ship sails on her first fishing trip, which is expected to be fishing for cod
Skipper Robert Summers took delivery of his new boat the 16.5m Rebecca Jeneen OB 38 December 2008, and is now fishing from his home port of Mallaig on the west coast of Scotland.
The latest completion by Macduff Shipyards Limited is the “Rebecca” for skipper Adam Tait, who operates through Westward Fishing Company.
Newbuildings 411 and 412 from Karstensen Shipyard in Skagen was handed over to skipper/owners Jens og Erik Vinther Poulsen on 3 July 2009. The following day, the 2 vessels were officially launched and named during a enjoyable ceremony at the owners homeport of Oesterby on the island of Laesoe. It has been many, many years since just a single newbuilding was delivered to Laesoe, and these 2 are by far the largest ever built to the island.
The latest completion by Parkol Marine Shipyard, Whitby, is the “Pleiades” BF 155 for Phillip and Gary Hepburn from Gardenstown
The latest completion by Macduff Shipyards Limited is the “Ellorah” for the Shaulora Fishing Company Limited, and will be skippered by Graeme Buchan and Graeme Smart, owners of the company.
Nord Solund Fiskeriselskap bought the pelagic trawler MS Themis from Sweden and is converting it to a purse seiner.