[image] M/V Sunmar Sea I was mate on the Snowbird Was that the old Snowbird, the converted FS?

Yes, an old FS. Two Cats. She could do 14 kts. When we pushed the Sea on the hip out to the trawler the captain said that was the fastest he’d ever gone on that ship.

[image] M/V Sunmar Sea That ship and crew didn’t seem like the typical operation you dealt with in Alaska. Aren’t most of the fish carriers converted WW2 Army/Navy vessels still??

I’m going to have to dig deep in old photos but I remember visiting it several times in Seattle during some conversion work at Marco and then much later in San Diego where it was berthed after a fire onboard. I believe it was scrapped after that. Do you know what became of it? They had a movie pos…

[image] ombugge: Aren’t most of the fish carriers converted WW2 Army/Navy vessels still?? It is (or was until fairly recently at least) a very “colorful” trade with some very vintage vessels converted to all sorts of uses.

[image] ombugge: Aren’t most of the fish carriers converted WW2 Army/Navy vessels still?? The ships / boats working in Alaska were an assortment like Steamer said. We didn’t typically go alongside “fish carriers”, usually catcher processors or the big trawlers, both U.S. and foreign. Here’s…

I don’t know what became of her. I heard it was converted to something fisheries related but I don’t recall what. Maybe processing?

When I saw it at Marco they were adding extra freezing capacity and some kind of fish handling stuff for the SoPac tuna fishery. It still had all the same deck stuff on when I saw it in San Diego maybe 10 years ago and the crewman I spoke to said they had a fire onboard and hoped to return it to ser…

Mentioned it on this thread which was an off-shoot the great anemometer discussion. [image] We don't need no stinking compass Scuttlebutt Here is Capt Doug, he made many trips to Alaska and I never saw him use the chart or the compass. [Capt Doug]

[image] ombugge: Aren’t most of the fish carriers converted WW2 Army/Navy vessels still?? Depends on what you mean by “fish carrier”. The term is not used in Alaska. Vessels like the Coastal Sea and Snowbird were fish tenders. Technically, Aleutian fish tenders, as classified by the CFRs. The…

They actually own three, the Sea Trader, Eastern Wind, and the Dolphin. I believe the Sea Trader and Eastern Wind are no longer classed as Aleutian Fish Tenders. The Dolphin was converted to an RSW fish tender and no longer carries cargo, other than a little on deck. Your terminology might be a lit…

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Aren’t most of the fish carriers converted WW2 Army/Navy vessels still??

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