Welcome to the Classic Trawler Network, our network is dedicated to presenting, preserving, fostering and sharing the history of the Malahide and Romsdal Trawlers built in an era when power cruising was in it's infancy.

The Classic Trawler Network began 2008 with a renewed focus on presenting the most comprehensive and up to date information available on Malahide and Romsdal Trawlers. As the year has progressed we haven't been able to make as much progress as was hoped for, that being said it has become obvious that our current site is in need of a major overhaul, this is now underway.

Over the next few months the site will be completely rebuilt from the ground up. As can be seen from "On the Water Front" to the right, there is quite a bit of activity happening down on the water front, despite the higher costs of running our vessels. There are several vessels up for sale, new articles coming out, people still cruising and chartering etc.

During the last few months digging around on the Internet some very interesting information on other North Sea type trawlers has been found, some of this info will begin to appear on the new site, along with an open invitation to send us details about your own vessel, particularly if it is a converted fishing vessel, or built on lines taken from an mfv, such as the Inchcape, Buckie and Fraserborough trawlers etc.

For some time now, an internal debate has been raging on the pro's and con's of having other trawler types shown on the site. Although the primary reason for setting up the Classic Trawler Network was to present as much information as could be gathered on Malahide and Romsdal Trawlers they are not the only vessels of there type, far from it, one only has to start looking for infornmation about Scottish, Irish, Scandinavian and Baltic trawlers to realise that vessels from these areas are the forerunners of the Malahide and Romsdal Trawlers.