Ullapool and the Klondykers

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Ullapool Museum

3 жыл бұрын

The Story of the Klondykers coming to Ullapool

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@dsclark1954 3 жыл бұрын

Happy days boarding these boats 24/7 to check their catches. When interviewing the skippers I was always asked questions about my lifestyle in the village. Do you have a car, washing machine etc. Remember helping one crew get a washing machine from Mike Kelly’s emporium down to the boat. Seeing the lifeboats the scariest thing was heading out the loch at night in the FPV at 30 knots with none of the lifeboats showing any lights. The stories I could tell 😂😂

@user-fz5ht3nw1s 2 жыл бұрын

Да-а, мощные фотки! Нахлынули воспоминания! Были когда то и мы рысаками! Мортрансфлот/Рефтрансфлот 1981-1991 годы.

@waterboy8999 6 ай бұрын

This was great. I remember being up that way in the early 90's and seeing Russian factory ships there and further north.

@IgorPreobrazhensky1967 2 жыл бұрын

Great photos!Thanks for my memory!

@neilbush9873 Жыл бұрын

I live in australia now i crewed on yogis prawn trawler the corsair back then ,i grew up on Scoraig Thank you for this video of memories ,i just showed my Australian wife.

@paul1962uk 10 ай бұрын

My great aunt used to teach in Scoraig School in the 1930’s, my people are from Durnamuck

@neilbush9873 10 ай бұрын

@@paul1962uk thats awsome ,a woman by the name of Cathy dag lives on scoraig and collects history perhaps she might relish any anecdotes

@paul1962uk Жыл бұрын

Loads of voices I can recognise ,I left there 26 years ago

@neilbush9873 Жыл бұрын

Are you Paul who was bragging to me about the Honey-monster?

@paul1962uk 10 ай бұрын

@kenmilne2797 2 жыл бұрын

I worked in the Mercury 78-79 remember these people well and the boats

@uilleamfraser4241 6 ай бұрын

The first ships to arrive in 1978 were 2 Russians and 3 Bulgarians. Of course this was not Ullapool's first klondyke, I understand that back in the 60s Polish vessels arrived to take herring. Before the decline of the herring very little mackerel was landed by Scottish vessels preferring to concentrate on the `Silver Darlings. As the fishery grew so did the number of factory ships along with this the size of the cathing vessels grew. There were a number of companies involved in the trade, in some cases the ships were just floating processors for the companies who then sold the finished product worldwide. Other ships were freezing mackerel for their home consumption. Conditions on board some of the ships went from basic to exceptional.