herring boat

If they wanted me to make herring boats, I wouldn't complain about that, either.

By the middle of the century, Shapinsay had 50 herring boats.

"I thought you lived on a herring boat."

Would I make herring boats that didn't hold herring?

They would walk over the boats, the herring boats, herring fishing.

It was no lie, at that; he'd had several teenage summers as hand on a herring boat captained by an acquaintance of the Reverend's.

By 1788, Wexford, with 44 cargo ships and 200 herring boats was the sixth busiest port in Ireland.

I'd make herring boats."

Here, in brown, was a scene of rural activity-crofters working their fields, cutting turf in the mountains, unloading the herring boats.

Later, FitzGerald became similarly close to a fisherman named Joseph Fletcher, with whom he had bought the herring boat.

He had arrived fairly recently at Overweary's, his origins a mystery, though he claimed to have vague memories of life on an English herring boat.

On 19 August, after chasing off the six men-of-war escorts, Collaart's forces destroyed around 50 herring boats near Doggersbank.

In the early 19th Century, the British Government began to subsidise the catches of herring boats larger than 60 tons, plus an additional bounty on all herring sold abroad.

Suffolk fishermen called this bird "herring spink" or "tot o'er seas" because migrating Goldcrests often landed on the rigging of herring boats out in the North Sea.

However undaunted, Captain David Brodie expended the princely sum of £8 to cut the famous 330 steps; his confidence was rewarded in 1814 with the harbour supporting 14 herring boats.

Ellsworth made four expeditions to Antarctica between 1933 and 1939, using as his aircraft transporter and base a former Norwegian herring boat that he named Wyatt Earp after his hero.

The Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen completed a three-year voyage through the Northwest Passage in the converted herring boat Gjøa, after being trapped in ice for three winters.

His father was the captain of a herring boat, and Gunn's fascination with the sea and the courage of fishermen can be traced directly back his childhood memories of his father's work.

THIS is his first trip back to the Russian-accented city since then, and while the herring boats in Sitka's harbor announce the arrival of spring, large feathery flakes of snow have been falling.

His name had been given as Hans, but that was unlikely to be his real name, any more than John was the real name of the bearded young man who was now on the bridge of the herring boat, aft of where they stood.

By the mid-1840s the population of the expanded and improved village had grown to 526 inhabitants, with 22 haddock boats and 23 larger herring boats working from the harbour for the seasonal fisheries (March to July, and July to September respectively).

By the sea is a fishing port fronted by long rows of fish houses selling eels and boiled prawns and turbot and plaice and smoked mackerel; the little harbor bristles with the masts of wooden cutters and big steel herring boats.

The Northwest Passage was not completely conquered by sea until 1906, when the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who had sailed just in time to escape creditors seeking to stop the expedition, completed a three-year voyage in the converted 47-ton herring boat Gjøa.