THE BRITISH HOME FRONT 11 | Fisheries - Robb Robinson
Channel: ChromeRadio
Date: 14/10/2018

Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.

In this podcast, DR ROBB ROBINSON, Honorary Research Fellow, Maritime Historical Studies Centre, UNIVERSITY OF HULL, talks about the fishing industry during the First World War.

IMAGES (IN ORDER OF USE) | Kindly provided by Robb Robinson, with thanks to those named for granting permission to use them.

(1) COVER IMAGE & IMAGES (4) & (6): minesweeping crew of the Buckie drifter Obtain (Jon Grobler). 
(2) Pre-War North Sea Hull boxing fleet trawlermen (James Morley).
(3) Civilian Scottish fishermen captured whilst fishing and held in Germany during the Great War (Jon Grobler).
(5) George Robinson, a Hull trawler mate, in Auxiliary Patrol Uniform (Robb Robinson).
(6) Armed trawler Crew Italy, 1918) (Joy Simmonds).
(7) Last surviving steam trawler which saw action in the Great War HMT Viola (now Dias) lying today at Grytviken in South Georgia (Elsa Davidson).
(8) Scarborough fishermen being held under guard on the deck of a U-boat whilst their trawler was being destroyed c.1916 (George Westwood).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.

PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.