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H243

Gaul

Remembering all 36

Interpretive maritime painting: the freezer-trawler era. An imagined scene, not a verified portrait of Gaul.
The freezer-trawler era · Artist’s impression · imagined period scene, not a verified vessel portrait
Completed
1972, Brooke Marine, Lowestoft
Type
Factory freezer stern trawler
Lost
February 1974 · 36 lives

The story so far

Completed at Brooke Marine in Lowestoft in 1972, Gaul H243 was a stern trawler fitted to fillet and freeze fish aboard. She was lost in the Barents Sea in February 1974 with all 36 crew. The memorial list below is drawn from the Fishermen’s Mission’s 50th-anniversary programme, while vessel details come from the official investigation.

THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE VESSEL

The 36 men remembered

All 36 names from the 2024 Gaul 50 memorial programme. This is the 1974 loss list, not a list of everyone who ever sailed on Gaul.

Crew sources & coverage

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Vessel sources & research

Researched October 2026. This is a growing vessel record. Crew-list coverage and dates are explained above; a name’s absence is not evidence that someone never served. Corrections and documents are welcome at info@hessleroad.com.

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