Fv Gaul

There were rumours never proven that the gaul was engaged in intelligence gathering activity for.

Fv gaul. She sank some time on the night of 8 9 february 1974 in storm. 20mm spine allowed for 31188 tso r v gaul cover 17 11 04 15 56pm page 1. Forty years ago today was the last time the fishing factory ship gaul was ever seen above the waves. If you would like to participate you can visit the project page where you can join the project see a list of open tasks and join in discussions on the project s talk page.

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. Fv gaul is within the scope of wikiproject yorkshire an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to yorkshire on wikipedia. Tom wilkinson leads the astonishing bbc cold war drama inspired by real events. The vessel sank at an unknown time on the 8 or 9th february 1974 in the barents sea during an intense storm.

The fv fishing vessel gaul was a supertrawler with fished out of hull east yorkshire. On february 8 1974 the ship was seen on radar by other ships fighting a force 10 gale. All thirty six crew members were lost with the ship. Report of the re opened formal investigation into the loss of the fv gaul 152 11.

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. 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. Suspicions are aroused when a british trawler goes missing. The surveys of the wreck in 1998 and 2002 were thus respectively 24 and 28 years after she sank.

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. In 1974 during the cold war the fishing vessel fv gaul disappeared off the coast of norway. 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. After other trawlers had been hit by three huge waves gaul vanished from the radar forever.

C this article has been rated as c class on the project s quality scale. During the 2002 survey a wealth of video footage was obtained and part of that.