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Key Information
- Title:
- British Trawlers, Where they fish...what they catch and how they catch it.
- Object Name:
- poster
- Date/Period:
- c1950
- Location on Display:
- Museum - Not Currently on display
- Accession No:
- KINCM:1953.29
- Brief Description:
- Colour poster entitled 'British Trawlers, Where they fish...what they catch and how they catch it', printed for the British Trawlers Federation Ltd, Grimsby with central blue and green map of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans with yellow land marked with red labels and text, of Europe, Britain, Greenland and the North Canadian coastline at the top left. There are inset illustrated text boxes down each side on 'Daylight Hours in Summer and Winter' with symbol logo repeated on different areas of the map. At the bottom left is a scroll bordered panel 'Any Questions' with red questions in capitals followed by the answer in black with yellow and blue illustrations; at the bottom right is another scroll bordered panel titled 'Gale Warnings' with text and map below indicating different gale areas around the British Coast between Europe and Iceland; above is a circular border containing an illustrated panel on 'How does a trawl work' with image of a trawl net with trawl doors, lines below the sea and a trawler on the waterline above. There is a blue border with illustrations of the various fish species caught with name titles and red numbers in fish shapes that are repeated as references to where each fish is caught on the central map; and cartoon heads representing the four winds at each corner. Black and white striped outline.
Dimensions:
| Type | Height | Width | Depth | Diameter | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| framed | 810[mm] | 1110[mm] |
