Fv Gaul

The fv gaul the honourable mr justice david steel 62 including vat www tso co uk report of the re opened formal investigation into the loss of the fv gaul the honourable mr justice david steel please note.

Fv gaul. After other trawlers had been hit by three huge waves gaul vanished from the radar forever. The fishing vessel gaul was a deep sea factory ship based at hull united kingdom she was built in 1972 by brooke marine of lowestoft for the ranger fishing company and registered at north shields as ranger castor sn18 but renamed when ranger fishing was bought by british united trawlers and re registered at hull as gaul h243. All thirty six crew members were lost with the ship. The vessel sank at an unknown time on the 8 or 9th february 1974 in the barents sea during an intense storm.

Tom wilkinson leads the astonishing bbc cold war drama inspired by real events. She sank some time on the night of 8 9 february 1974 in storm. The gaul rfi was not however the only flawed inquiry into a maritime tragedy. With tom wilkinson peter eyre lesley nightingale michael aldridge.

During the 2002 survey a wealth of video footage was obtained and part of that. Suspicions are aroused when a british trawler goes missing. Enter a nightmarish world of political cover ups of international consequence in the last decade of the cold war in this six part bbc drama. 20mm spine allowed for 31188 tso r v gaul cover 17 11 04 15 56pm page 1.

If one reads through the transcripts of evidence for the 1975 inquiry it is notable yet again link to previous fv gaul post that council for the dot who in 1975 carried out similar functions to those performed by the ag in the 2010 inquiry was quite anxious to put forward the notion that trident had complied substantially with the imco minimum standards. Forty years ago today was the last time the fishing factory ship gaul was ever seen above the waves. The inquiries into the loss of mv derbyshire the 91 655 gross tons bulk carrier built in 1976 and lost in 1980 and the most blatantly unsound inquiry of all the re opened formal investigation into the loss of fv trident a peterhead registered trawler that sank in 1974 showed the same disregard for the. Compelling new evidence has emerged that the hull factory trawler gaul lost with all hands 25 years ago tomorrow may have sunk when a collision with a submarine caused a 6ft hole in its bows.

Gaul s captain peter nellist humberside police confirmed it had been working with the foreign office and russian authorities for more than a year but had only just told relatives of the find. The surveys of the wreck in 1998 and 2002 were thus respectively 24 and 28 years after she sank. The findings of the underwater investigations 11 1 the gaul was lost in february 1974.