Qualla: Pasages (steam trawler) https://qualla.com/pasages-steam-trawler en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/w/pasages-steam-trawler-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Pasages (steam trawler) https://qualla.com/pasages-steam-trawler Pasages (steam trawler): Introduction https://qualla.com/pasages-steam-trawler/ Photo credit Maple from Ramsey, CC0. The wreck is still there at Jurby Head, half buried in shingle, half pushed up against the cliffs of the northwest Isle of Man. Two pieces of riveted steel hull lie tilted on the beach where the sea left them ninety-odd years ago. The bow is gone. The stern still rises in fragments. Walk down at low tide and you can read the lines of a vessel built for one war and ending its days in another trade altogether - the steam trawler Pasages, registered FD 119, formerly TR 14 of the Royal Canadian Navy.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/w/pasages-steam-trawler-wp/gcsw-pasages-steam-trawler-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pasages (steam trawler): Built in Toronto for a Distant War https://qualla.com/pasages-steam-trawler/ Photo credit Maple from Ramsey, CC0. She slid down the ways at the Dominion Shipbuilding Company in Toronto in 1917, the same year the German submarine campaign in the North Atlantic reached its peak. In February of that year, the British Admiralty had asked Canadian yards to build 36 naval trawlers - copies of a Ro...

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