'Storm Drift', BA187 aground on Kerrera Island

'Storm Drift', BA187 aground on Kerrera Island
'Storm Drift', BA187 aground on Kerrera Island
'Storm Drift', BA187 aground on Kerrera Island
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'Storm Drift', BA187 aground on Kerrera Island
Clyde ring netter 'Storm Drift', BA187 aground on Kerrera Island, in January 1968.

She had been ring-netting in the Minch in partnership with seven other Dunure boats and all the crews were going home for the weekend. As both Oban harbour and the Crinan Canal basin were packed with boats, ‘Storm Drift’ and ‘Fair Wind’ BA117 were moored to a buoy off Kerrera. On 14 January, while the crews were still in Ayrshire, ‘Hurricane Hettie’ struck and both boats were driven ashore on the island.

The salvaging of ‘Storm Drift’, by a squad from Noble’s boatyard in Girvan, took ten days, and the salvaging of ‘Fair Wind’ took about three weeks and necessitated the blasting of the rock in which her keel was jammed. For a full account, see Angus Martin’s The North Herring Fishing, p 112.

‘Storm Drift’ was built by A. Noble & Sons, Girvan, in 1962, for Grieve Gemmell and Iain Gemmell, Dunure, and was the first Clyde fishing boat to have Decca Navigator installed. She was later re-registered as CN368.
The Scottish Fisheries Museum Trust Ltd
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