MARITIME AND FISHING BOAT RELATED LINKS
with a Scottish flavour
If you are looking for information about ships, the shipping industry, fishing industry, fishing boats for sale, or Scottish fishing communities, try the links below. All corporate logo buttons used to link to other sites are acknowledged to their owners and their respective websites.
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MARITIME AND FISHING
WEBSITES
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The Mother of
all Maritime Links : Just as the name suggests - a site with hundreds of links on all
sorts of maritime interests |
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Howdy Dave's Maritime Link Site
Another good site with lots of commercial fishing related links |
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Gadus
Associates
Huge link site devoted to all aspects of commercial fisheries |
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Scottish
Fishermen's Organisation: manages the fishing
activities of its members making it one of the largest fisheries managers in
Europe. Lots of useful information about commercial fishing and good links |
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Bateaux de
Peche : French site with fishing boat photographs,
particularly Sables D'Olonne, but also other French ports. Click on the word "Sommaire" to
Enter Site |
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Peter Gatz has a homepage for German
fishing boats and links to other German fishing boat and maritime sites. The whole site is in German, but is simple
to navigate. |
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Kadeplaatjes This is a Dutch website with fishing boat photographs. The whole webpage is in Dutch, but it is
fairly easy, with a little bit of guesswork, to navigate around the site. Lots
of links to Dutch fishing boat sites |
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Jacob Nadema has a Dutch website with
fishing boat photographs and information |
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Budding Rose :
Website
for the Peterhead fishing boat – the current one, and the previous ones of
the same name. Lots of photos and history |
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Boats
Information : American site with lots of
links to anything about boats |
NEWS MEDIA
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The British Broadcasting Corporation website is enormous, but this link may be useful for current Maritime and Fishing news |
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Fishing News - The UK's premier weekly newspaper for the fishing industry |
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Fish Update -
on line magazine for the sea fishing, processing, and aquaculture industry |
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IntraFish - Online news agency for the fishing industry. |
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The Irish Skipper - Commercial Fishing and Aquaculture newspaper, with a good online facility covering news and links |
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Marine Times - Irish newspaper for the fishing industry, but includes a useful section on Scottish fishing news. |
CHARTERS, CRUISES, BOAT
HIRE AND HOLIDAYS
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Highland Voyages : The "Eala Bhan" is a traditional Scottish fishing boat extensively refitted to provide personalised voyages from Inverness - cruise the Scottish Islands, or go sea angling, wildlife trips or monster hunting in Loch Ness ! |
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Loch Shiel Cruises have a 52 ft (16 metre) ex Admiralty harbour launch for cruising in the Western Highlands – full details on their website |
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Scotland's Waterways : Covers all of Scotland's canals, with information for canal users, tourists and links to charters, hires and holidays |
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Waverley - Clyde built, the last seagoing passenger paddle steamer in the world - and still in service for day trips |
FISHING BOATS AND
EQUIPMENT FOR SALE
(most of the fishing
boat sale sites include photographs of the boats)
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Scottish site providing sales and services throughout the UK and Ireland for fishing boats, equipment and crews |
Seaway Group |
Seaway Group operate from the fishing port of
Macduff. Operations include boat
transport, chandlery, workboats and pleasure boats for sale |
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Icelandic company. The boats for sale page includes photographs of fishing boats |
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Boats and Outboards in the UK have a large selection of small
boats and fishing boats of all types |
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The Irish Trawler: Irish site with boats for sale, crews for hire and wanted, local history, and links to other fishing websites |
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Maretec - Faeroes company, also with photographs of fishing boats for sale |
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Fish Information and Services Link site to hundreds of fishing and aquaculture websites including boats for sale, fishing gear, engines, fish prices. Available in several languages |
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A link site run by World Fishing Magazine, with links to the suppliers of fishing gear, engines, boat manufacturers, etc |
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The RNLB operate large numbers of
lifeboats around the UK and Ireland.
Ever wondered what happens to old lifeboats when they go out of
service ? See Quinton Nelson’s site
for converted lifeboats for sale |
BOOKS, PAINTINGS,
PRINTS, AND MODEL SHIPS
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Alf Hodson was the skipper of the Grimsby trawler “Ross Tiger”. Now he has a website showing his watercolours of fishing boats |
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Neil Taylor-Cashmore has a website with paintings of seascapes, fishing boats, etc |
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Edward Smith is based in the north east coastal area of Scotland, and produces a fine range of model ships and also highly detailed fishing boat and ship prints |
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Squadron Prints are a Scottish company with a reputation for very detailed, technically accurate aircraft prints, but they also have a range of warship prints as well. |
SCOTTISH
SEAFOOD
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Arbroath Fisheries produce the famous “Arbroath Smokies” – succulent smoked haddock made by the traditional method that made the town famous. Also other smoked fish. Mail order service available |
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Arbroath Smokies Direct is another local company with an online ordering service for Arbroath Smokies and other smoked fish. The webpage has a short video showing the smoking process. |
SCOTTISH PORT
INFORMATION
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Ports of Scotland - Has a website containing good information about all Scottish ports. Also produces an annual book with details of all ports and harbours Well worth a look |
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Aberdeen - Fishing boats, cargo and oil support facilities for the North Sea Oil Industry. |
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Aberdeenshire Harbours: The local Council operates harbours at Banff : Gourdon : Johnshaven : Macduff : Stonehaven : Rosehearty : Portsoy : The website address for individual harbours changes as pages are updated so use this link to the home page of Aberdeenshire Council – from there use their search facilities to get harbour information |
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Ayr - Firth of Clyde |
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Burntisland - Firth of Forth |
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Cairnryan |
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Clydesite has useful information about the Clyde Ports and shipping movements and the history of the River Clyde and shipbuilding |
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Dundee |
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Grangemouth - Firth of Forth |
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Inverness |
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Leith - Firth of Forth and the port for Edinburgh, Scotland's capital city |
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Lerwick Habour Board - Shetland Islands |
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Methil - Firth of Forth |
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Montrose - Scottish East Coast |
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Rosyth - Firth of Forth |
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Scrabster Most northerly mainland port. Important fish landing port and ferry link to the Orkney Islands |
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Troon - Firth of Clyde - Fishing, Ferry Services, Shipyard |
SCOTTISH COMMUNITIES
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Some sites are official City or Tourist pages, others are local community pages, but all are a good starting point for historical information and links to other sources of information |
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The Internet Guide to
Scotland Just like the name says. Lots of information and links |
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Scottish Communities Web Database : A link site listing the web addresses of many local community websites |
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Rampant Scotland has a huge list of links for
Scottish Tourism, events, information, with many links to island communities |
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Huge community site with hundreds of links, covering Wick, Thurso, Scrabster and the Caithness area in the north east corner of Scotland. Masses of local information including fishing boats and harbours |
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Community site |
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Community Site - Scotland's major fishing port |
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Tourist site |
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Tarbert - Loch Fyne : Tarbert was a thriving fishing port when shoals of herring roamed the Firth of Clyde. The herring and fishing fleet have gone now, but the website for the local community has lots of historical information |
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Western Islands - Harris Community Site - Local boat building and fishing history |
MUSEUMS, PRESERVED
BOATS, AND HISTORICAL RESEARCH
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Devoted to the preservation of old fishing boats (40+ years old). Lots of good historical information. The low cost annual subscription to get their magazine is good value for the amount of information in each issue |
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Harry Tates Navy
Slang title for the Royal Navy Patrol Service. If you are looking for information about
fishing boats and trawlers, or their Crews, in WW2 service, this is a good
starting point |
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Kelvin Marine Engines were made in Scotland and powered many Scottish fishing boats. Kelvin is now just a part of the vast GEC conglomerate, but this site looks at the historic engines - lots of photos, information and personal recollections |
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Mariners : Excellent site for historical research, tracing ships, or for
links to current information sources.
Well worth a look |
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Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther, Fife |
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SCRAN Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network This is an archive of historical information on all aspects of Scottish life, and includes records and information on marine and fishing activities |
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The Swan is a 67 foot traditional Scottish "Fifie" built in 1900 for herring fishing, and now preserved in Lerwick, Shetland |
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Ian Whittaker has a website for the restored Irish fishing boat “Ros Donn” plus information about other “Ros” class fishing boats |
GOVERNMENT AND OFFICIAL AGENCIES
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United Kingdom Government
Website Huge site, with search facilities and links to every local Town and City Council in the UK, as well as all the Government Departments. You can use the search facilities, or you can scroll through an alphabetical list until you find the one you want |
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Royal National Lifeboat Institution |
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