HOLBERG stern trawler

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On the three stamps of the Falkland Islands issued in 2007 you can see deck scenes on board the stern trawler HOLBERG, the vessel was identified after Mr Crichton contacted the stamp designer Mr. Michael Hattersley.
She was built as a stern trawler under yard No 61 by Kaarbos Mek. Verksted A/S, Harstad Norway for Bø Havfiskeselskap A/S in Bø/Sortland, Norway.
Launched as BØTRÅL 1 (fishing No. N-1.50-Ø).
Tonnage 299 grt, 95 net, dim. 38.06 x 9.02 x 4.57m. (draught)
One Winchman 8ACAT diesel engine, 1,200 bhp, speed 12 knots. Bunker consumption 4 tons a day.
Three reefer rooms below deck and one on deck.
October 1968 delivered to owners.
October 1981 sold to P/R Hermann Neerland & Oddbjorn Holberg, Vestsmøla and renamed HOLBERG (fishing No M-110-SM) and registered at Kristiansund N.
June 1984 sold to A/S Neerland, Ålesund (fishing No M-28-S) and again sold February 1985 to K/S Scallcrab Ltd. A/S, Haugsbygda/Ålesund.
1985 Rebuilt in a shell trawler by Longva Mek. Verksted A/S. Gursken, Norway
New tonnage 517 grt, 299 net.
1987 Lengthened two years later by again Longva Mek. Verksted, tonnage 915 grt, 422 net, dim. 53.43m length.
September 1989 she was taken over by K/S Holberg (Ronny Vik) Haugsbygda/Ålesund.
2000 Sold to Sur Este Pesca S/A, Belize but not renamed.
2006 Is given that she is listed as owned by Frigorifico Pesquero del Uruguay and registered in Montevideo, Uruguay.
05 November 2006 she grounded in Port Purvis, Falkland Islands after leaving Port Stanley on 1 November.
Lloyds casualty Report gives on the stranding:
She arrived Montevideo 17 January 2007. Then the report gives: The Uruguayan flagged scallop trawler HOLBERG which ran aground in the Falkland Islands and was later refloated by a team of divers from the Uruguayan Navy finally arrived in Montevideo over the weekend, towed by the MARIANA ROJA.
Last November 5 HOLBERG ran aground in Port Purvis, West Falklands while trawling for scallop and ending lying on its port side about a hundred meters from the shore. All thirty crew members and two observers managed to abandon the vessel but she was also carrying over 200 tons of marine fuel and lubricants and low quantities of diesel fuel began leaking with an oil slick gradually extending a mile long. The owners of the vessel Fripur, one of Uruguay’s main fishing corporations, tried to contract a local company to help to contain the leak and rescue the vessel, but ended having to call a divers team from the Uruguayan Navy that arrived in the Islands in mid-December. Eighteen days later January first, they had completed the task in spite of several day’s adverse climate conditions. The divers’ team arrived in another Uruguayan flagged trawler, MARIANNA ROJAMAR II which was then used to tow the later stabilized HOLBERG back to Montevideo.
The vessel’s re-flotation and salvage with significant minimum pollution was described as “extremely good news” by Falklands Fisheries Director, John Barton. The Falklands environmental Planning Officer Dominique Giudicelli commented that “the salvage of the HOLBERG has been conducted in a very professional manner and to high environmental standards by the salvage crew onboard MARIANA ROJAMAR II” there should be few long-term environmental effects on the Port Purvis environment from the wrecking of the HOLBERG added Giudicelli.
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/pho ... id=1299515 it looks that she will never fish again.

Equasis gives. 05 Noember 2006 total loss.

Falkland Islands 2007 3p,11p,25p, sg?, scott924,925,926. (the vessel on the 3p in the background is the DORADA see http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... 8925#p8925
Source: Watercraft Philately 2010 page 92/93 and internet.