Very many thanks Barry. Your pics have sorted out a number of finer details for me - nice model. Very sad about your models - one doesn't associate this behaviour from a civilised country - good that you eventually retrieved the trawler even though in such damaged condition. If anyone stole my model of the SAR&H tug "CF Kayser" I think I'd go out and buy myself an AK-47!
On a different tack - I think I can claim to be the only boat modeller in the world who had one of his models 'blown up' by the IRA! This paragraph from a letter from my Brother (the models of Ruth - and Hallam Venture were made for his shipping company, Bulk Charters). :
"The model involved in the IRA bomb blast was one of the Ruth Venture models, which I'd left with Chris Lewis when he had an office in the Baltic Exchange Annex. When he moved out he left the model there. It was not entirely demolished when the IRA detonated the bomb in St Mary Axe some time in the late eighties. ** Only parts of the superstructure were crushed when the ceiling collapsed and Chris eventually donated what remained to a ship model enthusiast who, I understand intended to try and rebuild it. The bomb fortunately went off in the late evening and the Baltic Exchange and the building opposite had to be condemned and the Exchange was never rebuilt. Great pity cos it was a magnificent building."
** On 10 April 1992 at 9:20 pm, the façade of the Exchange's offices at 30 St. Mary Axe was partially demolished, and the rest of the building was extensively damaged in a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attack. The one-ton bomb was contained in a large white truck and consisted of a fertilizer device wrapped with a detonation cord made from 45 kg of 'semtex'. It killed three people: Paul Butt, 29, Baltic Exchange employee, Thomas Casey, 49, and 15-year old Danielle Carter. Another 91 people were injured. The bomb also caused damage to surrounding buildings, many of which were also badly damaged by the Bishopsgate bombing the following year. The bomb caused £800 million worth of damage, £200 million more than the total damage caused by the 10,000 explosions that had occurred during the troubles in Northern Ireland up to that point. (This thanks to Wikipedia!).
Robin