Redding the net onboard 'Dusky Maid', Port Righ, Carradale, 1940s.

Redding the net onboard 'Dusky Maid', Port Righ
Redding the net onboard 'Dusky Maid', Port Righ
Redding the net onboard 'Dusky Maid', Port Righ
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Redding the net onboard 'Dusky Maid', Port Righ, Carradale, 1940s.
Redding a ring-net aboard the ‘Dusky Maid’ (BA 54), Port Rìgh, c 1940.

Colin ‘Effie’ Campbell (L) and John Alex Galbraith are ‘redding’ the net on to the stern, in readiness for its next ‘shot’, or set. Built as a Loch Fyne Skiff, ‘Dusky Maid’ was bought at Girvan for £400 c.1939 by Anthony Watkins for basking shark fishing from Carradale, but the Second World War intervened, and Watkins was called up. During the war, ‘Dusky Maid’ neighboured ‘Cluaran’ CN240 at ring-netting and was converted back into a harpoon boat when shark-hunting was resumed in 1946.

Also in the photograph, moored astern of ‘Dusky Maid’, are ‘Queen of the Fleet’ CN269 and ‘Rolling Wave’ CN28.

Original photograph donated by R Galer.
The Scottish Fisheries Museum Trust Ltd
Bk 7A p48
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