Take
a trip with the 'Semper Allegro' 
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Video shorts:
Breton trawlers shelter
in Newlyn
Penlee lifeboat exercise
Cornish
Sardines landing
Christmas Harbour Lights concert
Engine
lift out movie
Seacore
marina piling
Archive galleries:
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Semper Allegro PZ100
Take a virtual trip aboard the Newlyn beam trawler Semper Allegro, skippered by Michael Nowell accompanied by Roger, star of the BBC TV series 'The Skipper' and Spencer, general factotum.
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W &Sons
Take 3 virtual tours [1] [2] [3] around the harbour and see W Stevenson & Son's fleet, the largest in Europe, with over 20 fishing boats, mainly beam-trawlers. This family firm provides employment for fishermen and shoreworkers, market staff and transport drivers to electricians and engineers.
- Prawn Trawling in the 1980s aboard the Keriolet SS114
- Pair trawling - the Keriolet and Ben-My-Chree try their hand at pairing
- The Jacqueline and other sidewinders from Stevenson's fleet
- Those Mackerel fishing days - from punts to pursers
- Breton and french fishing boats, in port and at sea
- When things go wrong - a small example of everyday hiccups at sea
- The Fern - prawning, trawling and and that Navy visit!.
- Penlee Lifeboat disaster - searching off Tater Dhu the next morning
- Local boats
- Raising the Buckie registered mackerel trawler Bounteous
- Characters
- Dogfish
- Dumnonia
- Fishes
- Irish boats
- Keriolet trawling
- North Devon skipper, Mervyn Mountjoy
- Miscellaneous
- Gill-netting
- 1979 London protest to the House of Commons
- Scottish boats
- Passing ships
- Tuna fishing
- Unusual
- Weather
- WS&Sons
- PZ 10 Ship Inn, Mousehole model
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Take a quick movie tour of the harbour activity and fish auction:
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