Lilacina BF.395

Fantastic photo Dave. Lots of info for us modellers.

I'll second that Will. !!!!!!!!!!!!

Any history or dates ??

Bonny boat this one built early to the mid 50's I think in the Broch, caught his share this fellow, good living men gentlemen.

Ay thats a great photo,and as you say , showing  great detail .  That must have been later on in her time as a drifter, cos she has the bouys stored in a cage aft, where previously the sma,, boat was kept. A lot of the drifters had bouy cages on either the port side or starboard side of the after part of the caison.. At one time, up until the early 50s, bouys were never seen on deck, they were stored down below in the fishroom or hold, cos they were left tied or bent on all the time..It was only after the widespread use of the echosounder, and a better understanding of its use for locating the shoals of  herring, that they unbent them every time they hauled, so they needed somewhere else to store them. With the echosounder the skipper could see how deep the shoal or mark of herring was, and inform the crewmember who was tying on the bouys the length he wanted them tied on.It meant he had to fathom oot or measure every bouytow before tying them on. It was a gret improvement for catch prospects, as prior to altering the lengths of the bouytows, the nets might have have been shot on a big mark or shoal of herring, only to drift over the top of the entire shoal and catch nothing because the nets were above the fish...

Ta for very detailed info, Baden. W.R. Nicol of Gamrie owned and skippered her (Wullie Reidie). Previously skippered Steam drifter Laurel Crown. Fitted steel caisson to Lilacina 1970ish (Macduff style at the time, like Heritage, Prowess). and rigged her for trawl, mainly prawns and sprats. One of Bdellium's bum-boats at the purse seine.
Like you say, the "sma'-boat" was extinct, and inflatables in vogue. They were stored in collapsible wooden boxes like the one above the galley here. Classic story is about aul' Bill Sma's Spectrum in Shields. Board of Trade "mannie" made unexpected visit. Wanted to see Bill's raft. Bill showed him the box, but the mannie wanted to see inside it! Both climbed on to the galley roof. In the style of the old TV quiz show, Bill asked the Mannie if he "wanted the money, or OPEN THE BOX" !!!! The mannie wanted the box opened. Bill lifts the lid, and shouts "Ye've won the booby prize"!! Box empty. It was Bill who got the booby prize .. confined to port till the mannie saw a raft aboard her.

this boat end up working out oban at clams ?