Built to catch scallops and queenies, the new Halcyon has been delivered by Parkol to skipper Jamie Clark and owner John King of fishing company West Coast Sea Products Ltd.
This is the yard’s newbuild no 62, built at the company’s Middlesbrough yard, with commissioning and sea trials completed at the yard in Whitby.
The 34-metre, 8.90-metre breadth Halcyon BA-72 is rigged for scallop dredging, with tipping doors and handling conveyors for 18 dredges each side. The layout places the galley, mess, accommodation for a crew of up to eight, split winch compartments and other facilities in the aft deckhouse, below the wheelhouse.
The deck has beam trawl gantry braced off the deckhouse, catch conveyors and dredge tipping doors incorporated into bulwark sides, split trawl winches forward. Catch handling is arranged on the open deck.
Deck handling is supplied by SeaQuest and the fishroom chiller system is from SPX Refrigeration.
The main engine is a 749kW Mitsubishi S12R-(Z3)MPTAW, driving a four-bladed 2750mm diameter propeller inside a nozzle via a Reintjes WGF 773/11 reduction gear. Auxiliary engines are a pair of 239kW Volvo Penta D8A6-AMG units and a single 551kW D16C1-EMH, plus there’s a 70kVa Mitsubishi S4K-T 70 harbour set. Steering gear is from Scan Steering.
