Quick Search
|
Search Results
You searched for: More Like: 'Herring gutters and packers'
41 items
items as
Fishwives
3 Fishwives gutting herring in a yard at Point Law. c.1900. Behind them are the barrels into which the herring would be packed with salt ready for export. Fish gutters
47 Crews of fish gutters at work in the open air. The shiploads of barrels full of salted herring are ready for export to the Baltic. Leaving Aberdeen Harbour
502 A Leith registered fifie leaving Aberdeen Harbour. The white building seen behind the sails is the Round House, the Harbour Master's office, on the New Quay at Fittie.
The fifie was a fast wind-powered sailing boat favoured for herring fishing on much of Scotland's east coast from the 1850s until well into the 20th century. Its main features were the vertical stem (front) and stern (back) and the wide beam (width) making them stable in the water.
Fifies had two masts, a main dipping lugsail and a mizzen sail. Fifie's were increasingly decked following the recommendations of Captain Washington's 1849 report into the Moray Firth fishing disaster.
See SCRAN's webpage on Scottish sail powered fishing boats for more information on the subject.
The Tidal Harbour is in the background, beyond the landing stage of Pocra Quay's Lower Basin. The Herring Season at Aberdeen
630 A George Washington Wilson photograph titled The Herring Season at Aberdeen. It is numbered 2957. It shows sail fishing boats returning through Aberdeen's harbour mouth. The South Breakwater can be seen in the background. The most visible boats are registered in Inverness (INS2092 and INS34). Herring fishing boats
1505 This image has not yet been indexed. Use the Comments button below the image to enter information about the photograph.
Please note: we will not include any personal information provided unless you indicate that you wish to be acknowledged. The standard form for crediting your information is (name, place) e.g. (John Smith, Aberdeen). Home from the Herring Harvest
1800 An image entitled Home from the Herring Harvest. It shows the paddle steam tugboat John McConnachie (built 1879) towing a large number of scaffie fishing vessels into Aberdeen Harbour. The south breakwater can be seen in the background.
Steam tugboats were greatly useful for the safe and orderly navigation of the harbour by sailing ships. They were also employed in rescue and salvage operations and for the launching of boats. Herring Fleet
3144 An Adelphi series photograph showing a fleet of herring fishing boats in Aberdeen Harbour.
The postcard was lent to Aberdeen City Libraries so that we could create a digital copy for public use. Herring in Shetland
3329 George Washington Wilson rarely gave us an insight into industrial life but he obviously found that herring fishing offered these fascinating images of harbour scenes with arrays of boats, sails and barrels.
Women worked in the open air at the troughs (farlins) gutting the newly landed herring, salting and packing them into the barrels which the men later closed before loading them on to the larger sailing vessels for export to Germany and Russia.
Herring in Scotland
3330 The women were seasonal workers travelling from coastal villages in Moray and North-east Scotland as they followed the migration of the herring shoals. Albert Quay
3337 A scene of industry at the end of Albert Quay.
Fishermen can be seen unloading crans of herring from their steam drifters into barrels on horse drawn carts.
Given the location, some way from the more hygienic fish market, and the rough and ready barrels, these may be condemned, waste fish, heading to nearby chemical works to be converted into fishmeal.
Looking east, the photograph shows the ferry office in the background on the right. Between the carts part of a pontoon dock marked Aberdeen can be seen in the distance.
The photograph was likely taken around the 1920s. Commercial Road
3514 Image looking east along the floor of the graving dock on Commercial Road. This dry dock is shown in the Aberdeenshire LXXV.11 Ordnance Survey 25-inch map published 1902.
The photograph depicts multiple steamships set up for maintenance. The third boat along is the Maggie Gault (INS 126). The Aberdeen Built Ships website states that the boat was built by John Duthie of Torry for James and William Gault, Lossiemouth. It was a steam herring drifter that launched in April 1910. Mearns' Quay
3541 Photograph looking east along Mearns' Quay. Multiple trawlers with designations from Aberdeen and Great Yarmouth can be seen along the quayside.
In the photo can be seen the steam trawler Elysian Dawn (A277) which was built in Glasgow by Mackie and Thomson for The Steam Herring Fleet in Aberdeen during 1909. In 1923 it came into the possession of J. Smith in Buckie and was re-registered as BCK424. In 1948 it was broken up.
The ornate granite building on the quay in the distance is one of two Valve House Siphon Outlets of Aberdeen Corporation Sewage Works located on either side of the river.
The presence of the A277 in this photo dates it to 1923 or before. Pocra Quay
3568 This is a photograph taken from the Pocra Quay looking south-east across the harbour.
The hill of Balnagask is visible in the background. The image depicts a line of steam drifters, which were primarily used to catch herring.
A number of ships registered in Banff are visible with drifter Winner (BF1805) in the front. It was built in 1905 by William Geddes for John, James and Peter Reid from Portgordon.
Between 1915-1919, during the World War I it was a part of Admiralty Service under the number 3153. It served as a net vessel, which laid out anti-submarine or anti-torpedo nets.
The ship belonged to the Reid family until it was broken up in 1952 and is known as the last Portgordon drifter.
Pocra Quay
3569 This photograph depicts Pocra Quay on the left and the South breakwater lighthouse off in the distance on the right.
Multiple ships are registered in Aberdeen and Banff, such as Ebenezer (A892) belonging to Thomas Davidson, Callykhan (BF122) of J. Murray & others, and Tarbat Ness (A203) and Buchan Ness (A204) which belonged to the Girdleness Herring Drifting Company Ltd. based in Aberdeen.
Buchan Ness (A204) was built in 1908 and over the years had its name and registration changed a couple of times. In 1912 it was renamed to F.H.S. and moved to Yarmouth for John F. C. Salmon. Then, in 1929 it was moved to Banff and renamed again to Thealby for John Wood.
The wood screw steamer Vine (A279) also has an interesting story. It was built in 1900 by Forbes & Birnie based in Peterhead for a fish salesman from Aberdeen Thomas Davidson. An article written in The Buchan Observer of 20th March 1900 describes a celebratory banquet in honour of the newly built ship as it was leaving Peterhead to Aberdeen, where it would have a steam engine installed. The vessel was described as an "extraordinary success" due to its appearance and speed.
Unfortunately, in 1915, the ship was captured by enemy submarine and sunk with gunfire 30 miles north-east from Out Skerries, Shetland. All crew returned home safely.
The photograph was likely taken between the years of 1908 and 1915. Tidal Harbour
3582 This shot overlooks the mouth of the Tidal Harbour. The direction it faces is toward Pocra Quay, possibly from the strategic point of Albert Basin.
On the right of the photo, 2nd class sailboat 823A is under sail. Most sailboats registered in the area were involved in the popular herring trade.
A paddle tug and steam trawler sit mid shot with the hills adjacent to Old South Breakwater beyond.
Pulling out of the shot on the left, can be noticed an other paddle steamer. According to The Aberdeen Weekly Journal, The Northern Lights Service had many around the East Coast of Scotland, especially between 1900-1920. Torry
3584 This wide shot has been taken at "Maritime Strangers Rest," where the point of The Esplanade and Point Law meet.
Torry Harbour is in the background, with its leading lighthouse on the left. A large fifie with two men aboard tows a smaller boat.
Engineering is taking place in the right side of the background, in front of the fish curing yards. This could possibly be the construction of Mr. J. W. Cowie's herring barrel factory, placing the image no earlier than 1905.
The Aberdeen People's Journal of 11th November 1905 mentions the acquisition of a site for the herring barrel factory. Treasure 29: The Snow Queen and Hans Christian Andersen
202 Hans Christian Andersen wrote 'The Snow Queen' in 1844. Aberdeen City Libraries hold a number of interesting resources relating to the author. Perhaps the most notable is a 1926 reprint of his autobiography 'The True Story of My Life' translated by Mary Howitt and published by George Routledge & Sons.
Born in Odense, Denmark in 1805, Andersen wrote three autobiographies during his lifetime. 'The Book of My Life', written in 1832 aged 27, was for close friends, the Collin family, and was not intended for publication. 'The True Story of My Life' in 1846 was to accompany a German edition of his collected works and his final autobiography, 'The Fairy Tale of My Life', was published in 1855.
Mary Howitt (1799-1888) was an English author who came to prominence as a translator of Scandinavian literature, in particular eighteen volumes of the Swedish novelist Frederika Bremer (1842-1863) and many translations of Hans Christian Andersen. In the 1926 preface to 'The True Story of My Life' Scottish author and poet, Violet Jacob, claims that Howitt's "precise and innocence English" is the ideal vehicle for conveying Andersen's writing. It was through Howitt's translations that the English speaking world first came to know Andersen's work.
Howitt dedicates her translation of 'The True Story of My Life' to the Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind (1820-1887). Lind was world famous for her immaculate voice, generosity and strong religious convictions. She and Andersen were good friends. When Lind rejected Andersen as a suitor she became the model for the Snow Queen with a heart of ice. Their friendship endured nonetheless and in 'The True Story of My Life' Andersen explains the central influence Lind had on his work: "Through Jenny Lind I first became sensible of the holiness there is in art; through her I learned that one must forget oneself in the service of the Supreme. No books, no men have had a better or a more ennobling influence on me as the poet, than Jenny Lind, and I therefore have spoken of her so long and so warmly here."
The autobiography also contains other glimpses into the inspiration behind 'The Snow Queen'. For example, Andersen's childhood surroundings are said to have inspired the roof top garden on which the story's heroes, Gerda and Kai, first meet and become friends: "Our little room, which was almost filled with the shoemaker's bench, the bed, and my crib, was the abode of my childhood; the walls, however, were covered with pictures, and over the work-bench was a cupboard containing books and songs; the little kitchen was full of shining plates and metal pans, and by means of a ladder it was possible to go out on the roof, where, in the gutters between and the neighbour's house, there stood a great chest filled with soil, my mother's sole garden, and where she grew her vegetables. In my story of the Snow Queen that garden still blooms." |