Registration number 2240
Status Archived
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NIL DESPERANDUM - port bow view

Details

Function Fishing Vessel
Subfunction Trawler
Location NONE
Archive reason Disposed
Current use None
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Slater & Barnett, Lossiemouth
Built in 1947
Rig None
Number of decks 1
Propulsion Motor
Number of engines 1
Primary engine type Diesel
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
16.00 feet (4.88m)
Length: Overall
38.56 feet (11.76m)

History

NIL DESPERANDUM was built in 1947 for the Ministry of Defence, but in 1951, she was purchased by the Wiseman family and fished by them in Shetland waters for five decades. For 28 years, NIL DESPERANDUM was based in Scalloway on the west side of Shetland from where she steamed to the exposed fishing grounds of the North Atlantic. During that time, a range of fishing methods were used, including haddock lines where 20 lines, each with 700 hooks, were worked. NIL DESPERANDUM was the first vessel in Shetland to install a gutting machine, which was designed by Jim Smith of Berry, Scalloway and manufactured by Wilson of Aberdeen.

Update, November 2023: Vessel reported disposed of in Lerwick around 2019-2020. 

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