Looking for fishing trawler reference book

Thank you Ed

I'd guess from the general features and the little thistle emblem on the bow that the fishing boat shown in the drawings is Scottish.  Seems the Brits take a much more serious modelling interest in fishing vessels than we do.

The type of vessel I'm interested in is an Eastern Rig Dragger.   I suppose I'll have to dig through some archive as it appears there's very little in the way of books and commercial plans.  Pretty little boats.

The model I posted is in 1/87 scale, aka HO scale in the US.  Its scratch built based on photos from the Life/ Google archive and a Taurus Tugboat hull from Model Shipways.  MS sells reject hulls for $5 or so.   Worth the money for a project like this.     

I'd like to build another one in the same scale with more details and more accurate rigging.  Need more  reference material.

Dave

The new Model Shipwright online site

http://www.shipwrightannual.com/shipwright

offers a couple of free plan downloads for the fishing vessel PROSPECTOR

Hi,

McKee, E. Working Boats of Britain

Smylie, M. Traditional Fishing Boats of Britain and Ireland

After those general guides, most are published on regional subjects. There seems to be a good number dealing with Scottish vessels for instance.

@Billyboy: Which books would you recommend on British vessels of that era?

Cheers!

Dunno about US trawlers of that date, (there's a great number of British books on this subject, (but the vessels had been divorced from one another in design for a good long while by the early 20th century). Is there anything on the Historic American Engineering Record??

Good luck- oh and kudos on the very neat model. Given the diorama background, is it to a railroad scale by any chance?

Will

Anyone?