SHRIMP TRAWLER
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:20 pm
This stamp issued by Grenada in 1981 depict a shrimp trawler which is not identified and I have not more details on her. You can identify the type on her two long towing or outrigger booms and a backboom, I have seen many of this type in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. On the stamp the booms are up and she is not fishing but underway to or from port to the fishing grounds.
Wikipedia has a little more on the type:
Outrigger trawlers use outriggers, or booms, to tow the trawl. These outriggers are usually fastened to, or at the foot of the mast and extend out over the sides of the vessel during fishing operations. Each side can deploy a twin trawl or a single otter trawl. Outrigger trawlers may have the superstructure forward or aft. Warp winches with capstans are installed on the deck to haul the catch.
Outrigger trawlers with a forward superstructure (as the stamp shows) and aft working deck are widely used to target shrimp. The towing winch is usually located to the rear of the superstructure so warps from the drums feed to bollards on the cap rail, and then to towing blocks on the outriggers
Source Wikipedia
Grenada 1981 40c sg1116. Scott?
Wikipedia has a little more on the type:
Outrigger trawlers use outriggers, or booms, to tow the trawl. These outriggers are usually fastened to, or at the foot of the mast and extend out over the sides of the vessel during fishing operations. Each side can deploy a twin trawl or a single otter trawl. Outrigger trawlers may have the superstructure forward or aft. Warp winches with capstans are installed on the deck to haul the catch.
Outrigger trawlers with a forward superstructure (as the stamp shows) and aft working deck are widely used to target shrimp. The towing winch is usually located to the rear of the superstructure so warps from the drums feed to bollards on the cap rail, and then to towing blocks on the outriggers
Source Wikipedia
Grenada 1981 40c sg1116. Scott?