Lerwick antiques Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 Hi, does anyone know anything about the old wooden fishing boat called the Day Dawn. It was a light coloured boat that used to be in the small boat harbour along side the small pier. It vanished about 15 - 20 years ago. I think it was number LK 691. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 She was broken up, possibly at the Morrison Dock, after lying around for a while, if I remember rightly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 There is a photo from the Museum here http://photos.shetland-museum.org.uk/index.php?a=subjects&s=item&key=SYToyOntpOjA7aTo2NDI7aToxO3M6MTA6Ikh1Z2hzb24sIEoiO30=&pg=123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaepshot Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 The caption in the photo is wrong, it isn't the Sunbeam LK 335 but the Nil Desperandum LK235. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 ^ Year is wrong too I'm thinking, more like 80's sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lerwick antiques Posted January 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 Yes, thats the same boat in the picture that I was talking about, I always remember the detail around the name on each side of her. Brooken up? that could be right as she was in quite a poor state. Does anyone know when she was made? what part of Shetland was she from? and who owned her? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 There is this entry on Shetlopedia about a Day Dawn sinking in 1981 but it does not give a registration number. http://shetlopedia.com/Day_Dawn Edit Some further info on that sinking here http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/238462/details/day+dawn+north+sea/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 ^ That's another one, LK 432, I didn't have her number when I made that entry. She was a small steel stern trawler, I think Robbie Watt might have been the skipper, she went down with a load of eels when she wasn't very old, a year or two at most I think. There have been at least three, if not four Day Dawn's over the years. First one I know of was an old wooden herring drifter owned by Shearer's, she was LK 138. The one in the picture only came to Shetland during the 80's I seem to think, she may have come via Orkney and been K 691 before she was LK 691, but I'm not too sure of that. Likewise, there would seem to have been another Day Dawn that was also LK 691, but was around during or around the 60's, again I'm not too sure of her details. Pretty sure the 60's one and the 80's ones are different boats though, unless a fairly extensive refit was done, different wheelhouse, masts, trawl gallows, remodelled stern etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 I've just had a look at the 1986 copy of Harry's Shetland Fishing Almanac in the Library. It lists the Day Dawn LK 691 as being registered to MRG Bowie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 Further to the above I had some more time to kill at the Library because of the power cut so I asked one of the librarians to look out some more Harry's Shetland Fishing Almanacs from the 1980's and found this. Photo of Day Dawn LK 138 dated in the 1950's Day Dawn LK 432 was registered to OGT Watt (Taity?) in 1981. In 1982 she is listed for R Watt and described as having sunk. Day Dawn LK 691 joined the fleet 1n 1983 and was still on the list in 1991. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Sutcliffe Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 HelloI live on the Isle of Wight and in the harbour here is a 60's trawler which was converted to being a houseboat in the 80's I'm told. The agents have very little history except that its name is Red Dawn, it's believed to be from the Shetlands, and its number was LK691. There is a plate below deck referring to a GEC Diesels Ltd. KELVIN engine. Here is a link to the sale particulars. https://www.hose-rhodes-dickson.co.uk/property/-87825.aspx I'm thinking of buying it. So if anyone has any history, or photographs (none of the links in the thread seem to lead to one), I'd be grateful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 ^ Your link won't work. Is this what you're considering buying? Lying in Bembridge Harbour. If so she was the Day Dawn out of Portavogie. N.I. ex. B755. I don't know if she has a Shetland connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Sutcliffe Posted July 7, 2017 Report Share Posted July 7, 2017 Oh dear, sorry about the link. And I misquoted the name - Day Dawn, not Red. I found out a bit more ... seems it could be FR470 according to the following links and one of its former crew http://trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=170886&title=day-dawn&cat=637 http://www.trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59338 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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