The Royal Navy contributes innumerable classes of craft to compete in the racing, whilst the trawlers and fishing vessels all come in for the sports, producing one of the most picturesque gatherings to be seen anywhere.
The economy has diversified since 1987 when the government began selling fishing licenses to foreigntrawlers operating within the Falklands exclusive fishing zone.
In March 1989, an agreement between France and Canada set fish quotas for Saint Pierre's trawlers fishing in Canadian and Canadian-claimed waters for three years.
If they are not to man the trawlers of the future there is all the more chance that they will be scattered.
A few days since thetrawlers put out with a fair wind and a smooth sea.
For if French effort is limitless, the tonnage of the trawlers is not.
Some few minutes later the two trawlers were out in the Adriatic, headed for San Giovanni.
From the end of November, 1915, the smaller French ships, torpedo boats, trawlers and transports made the trip from Durazzo to San Giovanni di Medua to embark the Serbian Army.
On the seventh of January, 1916, the first French organization of ten trawlers set out from Malta to make a preliminary reconnoissance around Corfu, to drag for mines and to clear out the submarines.
When war was declared the only vessels immediately available for the work consisted of seven torpedo gunboats manned by officers and men of the Royal Navy, and fourteen trawlers manned by fishermen.
Atlantic trade and the trade from Gibraltar, trawlers being used as escorts for the Gibraltar trade, as the majority of the ships therein engaged were slow.
The trawler Elsie effected very fine rescue work amongst the survivors both from the Strongbow and ships of the convoy, whilst under fire, and both trawlers reached Lerwick.
All these vessels were fitted for regular minesweeping work, and the crews of the trawlers formed a part of what was known as the "Trawler Reserve.
He was informed that the position could not be considered satisfactory until the number of trawlers and sloops available for patrol and escort duty was greatly increased and that a total of at least another hundred destroyers was required.
It is one of the best winter haddock grounds in this vicinity, particularly the eastern edge, which is much resorted to by haddock trawlers from January through March, when this species is most abundant here.
It is fished mainly by line trawlers but is not much used as yet by gill-netters, being a somewhat difficult piece of bottom for them.
Quantity of Fish landed by Steam Trawlers on the East Coast of England from Fishing Grounds within and beyond the North Sea respectively.
The controversy has had the effect of causing the transference of a number of English trawlers to foreign flags, especially the Norwegian.
Returns of the steam trawlers registered in 1907 in the chief European countries show the expanse of this industry, and the enormous preponderance of Great Britain.
The statistics of the English Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have distinguished since 1903 between the catch of fish within and beyond the North Sea, and between the catch of trawlers and liners.
Excluding the voyages of the fleeting trawlers which supply London by means of carriers.
Yet another is to lay little mines nearer the surface to catch trawlers engaged in fishing for bigger ones placed deeper for larger ships.
If you ask by what methods the German mines are safely garnered you will be told that the trawlers sweep in pairs; a method which seems to have advantages over that of the enemy.
Add to these the fishing trawlers and drifters, over 3,000 of which are now in Government employ.
Take English and Scotch together and you may number the East Coast fishermen at a hundred thousand, and their ships, trawlers and drifters, accustomed to voyage to the Polar ice or the White Sea, at some three thousand six hundred.
It is, of course, quite possible that the Navy provided all the trawlers requisitioned for by the Army.
The skipper was a north of Ireland man, and he told me much about the arduous life which the men in the trawlers and mine-sweepers led.
He appealed to Admiral Wemyss, who was close by, to detail trawlers and lighters to get my Corps ashore as quickly as possible.
Steam trawlers are gradually coming into use, being independent of wind and weather, and one boat is capable of doing the work of several ordinary vessels.
The trawlers themselves stay out for six weeks at a time, in all seasons of the year.
Trawlers and mine-sweepers, as was the invariable custom, spent several hours sweeping the Queenstown Channel before the sailing of convoy "O Q 17" and its escort.
In 1987 the government began selling fishing licenses to foreign trawlers operating within the Falklands exclusive fishing zone.
Sometimes the evenings were misty, and the fog-horns of our destroyers and trawlerscarried faintly across the Ægean Sea.
The equipment of steam trawlers for the North Sea and the open ocean has become an immense industry in the east of England.
For almost a year her underseas crafts had been preying upon the small British coasting vessels, and sunk hundreds of fishing boats, trawlers and steamships.
The trawlers steaming along, side by side, sweep up with the net anything which may be placed in the water for the purpose of blowing up or injuring vessels.
Four or five transports lie near us, while the inevitable trawlers in couples, with noses cocked perkily in the air, sweep the water slowly for mines.
We fly over three or four little trawlerssteaming slowly along, dredging the waterway for mines.
One hears of trawlers that put out their dinghies in the roughest weather in order to save lives; for example, as when a trawler's dinghy rescued airmen from off the dangerous shoal of the Longsand when a heavy sea was breaking over it.
Two trawlers steaming abreast at about four hundred yards distance apart tow a sweep wire eight hundred yards in length, an end of which is attached to each trawler.
Consequently the patrol trawlers were converted into mine-sweeping trawlers.
To him, as to all those who knew our North Sea trawlers in the pre-war days, the change that has been effected in the personnel of these vessels by war conditions is amazing.
Now the trawlers and drifters carry six-pounders, and in some instances twelve-pounders.
When two or more pairs of trawlersare sweeping in unison they adopt what may be termed an echelon formation.
The mine-sweeping trawlers are organised in divisions of from four to seven vessels, each division being under the command of an R.
Without going into technical details, I will now give a brief explanation of the usual methods employed by the mine-sweeping trawlers of the Harwich base.
The destroyers of the Harwich Force, however, used to make successful raids on the enemy trawlers fishing in German waters, generally on the Jutland coast.
It was the practice of our destroyers to spread out on nearing territorial waters, sweep in and drive the trawlers out, and then reassemble with their captures at an appointed spot.
But the skilled North Sea fishermen who man the trawlers are the right men for this sort of work.
The Burnley was in charge of a subdivision of trawlers carrying out a patrol in the vicinity of the Shipwash light-vessel.
The trawlers and drifters manned by the men who used to fish with these vessels before the war compose the greater portion of the Harwich auxiliary force.
At the close of the day the senior officer in the Burnley, relying on the superior speed of his vessel to overtake the others, ordered the two trawlers under him to proceed to their anchorage in Hollesley Bay.
Close to the Achates lay two trawlers and the Swiftsure's picket-boat--the Orphan could just make out their obscure shadows.
Here were gathered the men-of-war, transports, fleet sweepers, and trawlers told off for the landings at the end of the Peninsula.
At dawn of Thursday, 12th August, she passed through a line of trawlers patrolling between Imbros and Samothrace islands, and presently heard once more the booming of guns.
The trawlers followed, like ducklings out for a morning paddle with their father and mother.
Two trawlers also made another plucky attempt to sweep through the mine-field, but had to retire when more guns fired at them--guns which it was impossible to locate from the ship.
Every now and again the French battleship Suffren came along up the Straits, with her protecting destroyers and trawlers and her "spotting" aeroplane, and bombarded the Asiatic guns for a couple of hours or so.
He knew that the two trawlers and the Swiftsure's picket-boat must already be sweeping through the mine-field and expecting to see the red light to guide them.
We must get a doctor," he told the Sub; and as the trawlers had not one, the boats requiring most urgent assistance were towed across to the Newmarket anchored near.
The others, who could walk, crossed over the hospital ships from one side to the other, and went down into trawlers waiting alongside.
The Germans, discovering this strategy, then began to sink trawlers when they found them.
But this was not to be essayed at once, for more rough weather kept the fleets from using their guns effectively, their trawlers continued to sweep the waters for mines near the Narrows.
For this work English-Scotch trawlers from the North Sea had been brought down and the crews of these little unprotected boats added many pages of heroism to the book of great deeds of the Dardanelles operations.
The British admiralty decided in April, 1915, to use some other means besides the employment of torpedo boats and destroyers to keep watch for German submarines, and innocent-looking fishing trawlers were used for the purpose.
The harbour has only enough depth of water for trawlers and torpedo-boats; the High Sea Fleet couldn't get in if it wished to.
They're usually trawlerson patrol; but sometimes you see a big bow wave, and that means a destroyer, and you crash-dive in a few seconds.
The passing Dutch trawlers had a good view of the incident, and must have thought the boat had gone mad.
Proceeded under one engine, 8 knots, working round a large fleet of sailing trawlers making to southward; making for route of warships seen yesterday.
There were always so many fishing trawlers about on the Dutch coast that it was impossible for our boats to avoid being seen and noted when on passage on the surface.
I do not know why the Heligoland trawlers did not see her as she was passing home to England.
Dived to check trim; day breaking on rising; sighted two steam trawlers 4 to 5 miles to southward; dived away from them; 3 miles.
You see, they have eighteen trawlers out between Schillig Road and the Island.
In the same way, the shelling of the British trawlers was totally uncalled for; and since it is not to be supposed that the German fires merely for the amusement of discharging his guns, another conclusion is forced upon us.
In other words there are four British steam-trawlers in the North Sea to every foreigner.
Much fishing is also done by English trawlers off the shores of Iceland, Norway, and the Faroes, and the boats now go as far even as the White Sea and the coast of Morocco.
He started off first with his "Oh, seiners all and trawlers all," but Alec McNeill and Patsie Oddie interrupted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trawlers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
