CASTLE BAY OF DALE M38

From a newspaper cutting dated 25th May 1990, in the Les Jones Archive

As CASTLE BAY G374 below.

Official  No:  700067    Port Number and Year:  2nd in Milford, 1985 (M38)

Description: Steel motor boat; drift nets, pots and otter trawls.

Crew:

Registered at Milford: 10 May 1985.

Built: 1985, Neyland.

Tonnage: 21.65 grt 12.61 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet):  39.25 / 15.2 / 5.6

Engine: 95 kw. 9475 hp.

Owners:   As CASTLE BAY OF DALE M38 10 May 1985: John Christian Rudder, Hasguard Cross, Haverfordwest.   As CASTLE BAY G374 1997: Noel Heaney, Inishturk,  Galway.

Landed at Milford:

Skippers: John Christian Rudder.

Notes: Still fishing in 2013.

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 11 April 1989. [ Re-registered; same name, port number and owner in Olsen's 1992, but register closed by 22 Feb 1997. ]

Accidents and Incidents

From the BBC "Domesday Reloaded; Fishing in Dale." (1986):

Fishing is done mainly by amateurs,  some of whom are great experts, using several different methods. There are  two large boats, registered from Milford Haven, the "Castle Bay of Dale" and the "Garlandstone", which are used for commercial fishing. Six smaller ones are used mainly as fishing boats with others used for occasional fishing. The large boats fish for   lobsters and crabs by putting down pots chiefly round the offshore islands. Other pots are put down around the coast in our area, by amateurs.  Nets are also put out in the sheltered bay of Dale, mainly for catching herring and mullet. A popular method of fishing is by rod and line from an anchored boat. In the area dogfish, pollack and mackerel can be caught in this way; and from further afield, skate, ray, turbot and tope are landed.

   

As CASTLE BAY G374

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