Miranda Website

This page contains links to other sites of interest - Trawler related, Shipping related!

Trawler Related Sites
Hull Distant Water Fishermen	This site is dedicated to all distant water fishermen past and present.
The Bosuns Watch The Fleetwood Trawlers Website	A superb site by Jim Porter detailing much info. about Fleetwood Trawlers.
Arctic Corsair - Homepage	The new and revised site of the Motor Trawler Arctic Corsair, the last remaining deep-sea side-fishing trawler of Hull's once proud distant-water fishing fleet.

General Shipping Related Sites
The Marine Society	Provides education, library services, and financial support to professional seafarers. It also encourages and assists with hands-on training and the dissemination of information those who may be considering a career at sea.
M.A.I.B.	The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) investigates all types of marine accidents, both to ships and to people on board them. Our fundamental role is to determine the circumstances of an accident and its causes. Our aim is to improve safety at sea and prevent accidents in the future. It is not the MAIB's job to apportion liability, nor, except when necessary to achieve our fundamental purpose, to apportion blame. The MAIB does not enforce laws or carry out prosecutions.
Portishead Radio	An excellent site dedicated to the memory of this great radio station. A link back to the UK in the good old days!
NUMAST	NUMAST is the acronym for the National Union of Marine, Aviation and Shipping Transport Officers. The head office is in London, with a regional office and a welfare complex in Wallasey, just across the Mersey from Liverpool. NUMAST is a trade union, affiliated to the TUC (Trades Union Congress), and the ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation), with membership open to shipmasters, officers, cadets and other staff serving in the UK and international fleets and ashore in maritime related industries. NUMAST's membership covers a wide range of Merchant Navy officer ranks and nowadays also includes a wide range of professional staff serving at sea, on oil rigs, as marine pilots and in related shore-based occupations such as harbourmasters, vessel traffic services staff and superintendents.