The ships that refuse to die and how Warrenpoint is making a mark on the Irish Sea

Now, if you listen to the podcast in Ireland, you may well know that it's National Heritage Week.

Dublin Port are among those marking it with a series of events, as we've shared on our social media channels.

In the UK, there's been much interest in a restoration project completed on the East Coast.

Built in 1960, the Arctic Corsair is the sole survivor of Hull's distant water sidewinder fishing fleet.

It had a career that included a world record catch.

In 1973, the greatest weight of cod and haddock was landed.

But it was also involved in conflict and collision during the cod wars.

Well, now it's been rescued by Hull City Council and it's been moved to a central location and is being hailed as the city's answer to Cutty Sark.

Well, the work to restore it was carried out by the team at Dunstan's Ship Repairs, including apprentices recruited for the project.

As Dave Clark, one of the company's directors, told us, that was how he started in the ship repair business.

I was an apprentice at British United Trollers, which was helping us, and they transferred my apprenticeship to Dunstan Shipbuilders.

So I finished my apprenticeship there, and I worked there for quite a few years.

Times got a bit difficult there, and I went elsewhere, and I've worked hygiene, kitchens, and all over the place, really.

Always the skills and always the interest in maritime.

Is that why you came back? Always, yeah.

Yeah.

My father was in the Royal Navy during the war.

My granddad was in the Merchant Navy.

He... went across the Atlantic.

He was fortunately got off, but he was on two boats that was torpedoed, but he got off them okay.

But yeah, so it's in the family.

It's a recurring theme on the podcast is that people, once it's in your family, that's it.

We met somebody recently and he was a Liverpool pilot on the Mersey.

And I think he had three of his four kids were involved in the maritime industry they had no choice to let's be honest they had to go you know follow dad into industry and they were doing really well so it's a it's a funny it's a recurring theme that once it my dad was a marine engineer so i mean i wasn't never went to see i was a journalist you know but when it comes to sort of interest in in the ship in ships and shipping and maritime as a whole i think you've always got that that bug perhaps or that salt water in your veins i don't i don't know it's obviously the same with you isn't it

it is yeah and i was fortunate really because i i used to play rugby league at quite our standard when i was 15, 16.

Now, if you listen to the podcast in Ireland, you may well know that it's National Heritage Week.

Dublin Port are among those marking it with a series of events, as we've shared on our social media channels.

In the UK, there's been much interest in a restoration project completed on the East Coast.

Built in 1960, the Arctic Corsair is the sole survivor of Hull's distant water sidewinder fishing fleet.

It had a career that included a world record catch.

In 1973, the greatest weight of cod and haddock was landed.

But it was also involved in conflict and collision during the cod wars.

Well, now it's been rescued by Hull City Council and it's been moved to a central location and is being hailed as the city's answer to Cutty Sark.

Well, the work to restore it was carried out by the team at Dunstan's Ship Repairs, including apprentices recruited for the project.

As Dave Clark, one of the company's directors, told us, that was how he started in the ship repair business.

I was an apprentice at British United Trollers, which was helping us, and they transferred my apprenticeship to Dunstan Shipbuilders.

So I finished my apprenticeship there, and I worked there for quite a few years.

Times got a bit difficult there, and I went elsewhere, and I've worked hygiene, kitchens, and all over the place, really.

Always the skills and always the interest in maritime.

Is that why you came back? Always, yeah.

Yeah.

My father was in the Royal Navy during the war.

My granddad was in the Merchant Navy.

He... went across the Atlantic.

He was fortunately got off, but he was on two boats that was torpedoed, but he got off them okay.

But yeah, so it's in the family.

It's a recurring theme on the podcast is that people, once it's in your family, that's it.

We met somebody recently and he was a Liverpool pilot on the Mersey.

And I think he had three of his four kids were involved in the maritime industry they had no choice to let's be honest they had to go you know follow dad into industry and they were doing really well so it's a it's a funny it's a recurring theme that once it my dad was a marine engineer so i mean i wasn't never went to see i was a journalist you know but when it comes to sort of interest in in the ship in ships and shipping and maritime as a whole i think you've always got that that bug perhaps or that salt water in your veins i don't i don't know it's obviously the same with you isn't it

it is yeah and i was fortunate really because i i used to play rugby league at quite our standard when i was 15, 16.