Arctic Corsair
Arctic Corsair
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| History | |
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| Name: | Arctic Corsair |
| Owner: | Boyd Line Hull |
| Port of registry: | Hull |
| Builder: | Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley |
| Yard number: | 959 |
| Launched: | 29 February 1960 |
| Renamed: | Arctic Cavalier (15 January 1988), back to Arctic Corsair (18 June 1993) |
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| Fate: | Museum ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Diesel side-fishing trawler |
| Tonnage: | 256 long tons (260 t) nett, 764 long tons (776 t) gross |
| Length: | 187.1 ft (57.0 m) |
| Beam: | 33.6 ft (10.2 m) |
| Installed power: | 1,800 bhp (1,300 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 6-cylinder Mirrlees Monarch diesel engine |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
The Arctic Corsair (H320) is a deep-sea trawler that was converted to a museum ship in 1999. It is berthed between Drypool Bridge and Myton Bridge in the River Hull in Hull, England, and is part of the city's Museums Quarter.
Exhibits and guides aboard the boat tell the story of Hull's deep-sea fishing industry.
The Arctic Corsair is Hull’s last surviving sidewinder trawler, a type of ship that formed the backbone of the city’s deep sea fishing fleet. She was built in 1960, at Cook, Welton & Gemmell in Beverley, and was the second diesel-engined trawler built for the Boyd Line, the first being the Arctic Cavalier which was launched the previous month. She was designed for the harsh conditions encountered in the Icelandic grounds, having a rivetted rather than welded hull.
In September 1967 she was holed on her starboard side in a collision off the coast of Scotland with the Irish collier Olive in thick fog. Attempting to reach harbour in Wick she was beached in Sinclair Bay but eventually repaired and refloated.
In 1973, the Arctic Corsair broke the world record for landing of cod and haddock from the White Sea.
On 30 April 1976 during the cod wars, she rammed the offshore patrol vessel ICGV Odin in the stern, after Odin had made three attempts to cut the Corsair's trawl warps. The skipper, Charles Pitts, said that Icelandic seamen were becoming "more ambitious and dangerous in their tactics". With his ship holed below the waterline, and patched up temporarily by the Royal Navy, Pitts decided to head for home for permanent repairs.Arctic Corsair was out of action for several months.
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