Histories of Irish vessels scrapped in 2008 scheme

In the third of a series of features, David Linkie gives a brief history of vessels removed from Ireland’s fishing registry in 2008 after being decommissioned under the government scheme implemented by BIM, the Irish Sea Fisheries Board.David Linkie thanks everyone who helped him with information to compile the series, in particular Eric Murphy, Rienk Nadema and Pat Deasy.

JOSEPH S WD 166: With an LOA of 132ft, the dual-purpose twin-rig/beam trawler Joseph S was the biggest vessel scrapped under Ireland’s 2008 decommissioning scheme. Joseph S arrived in Ireland from Holland in 1998 after being bought from Urk as Willy UK-153 by Alex Scallon of Wexford. Joseph S was fitted out at Stellendam by Maaskant in 1990 for Lub van Slooten and his son Pieter Louwe (Orion BV) of Urk as Willy, after the steel hull had been built in Gdynia, Poland.