Steel Fishing Boat News

A.F.Theraiult of Meteghan River, Nova Scotia is building a 99.1-ft. steel fishing boat for Capt. Wesley Hennebery of Ivy Fisheries. To be powered by a Cummins KTA38 M1 main engine rated to 1,000 hp at 1,800 rpm, the boat will be rigged for harpooning, longlining and trawling. The main engine will drive through a ZF BW361 gear with a 6.16:1 ratio. Electrical power will be supplied by a 70 kW gen set powered by a Cummins 6BT 5.9 G2m engine. Engines for the boat will deliver this September with the vessel delivery scheduled for early in 2000.

Reports indicate that two fishing boats collided on Sunday and one of them sank, leaving three people missing so far in the Nanri Island sea area in east China's Fujian Province. On Sunday morning, a steel fishing boat of Shishi County collided with a wood boat of Putian City. The wood boat sank and five crew men fell into the sea. Two people were saved and the three others remain missing. The provincial search and rescue center and the maritime bureau of Quanzhou City had sent ships to rescue the missing people. Source: Xinhua