Steam Fishing Trawler Model STL

A small steam side trawler. The hull has a high bow and a few portholes, with a deckhouse amidships carrying a tall banded funnel and a square wheelhouse. Trawl gallows stand fore and aft along the side, with a winch drum forward of the wheelhouse, a derrick boom on the foremast, a raised deck box at the bow and a triangular steadying sail on the aft mast. Steam trawlers dragged nets along the seabed from the late nineteenth century until the mid twentieth century, working from fishing ports in…

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