SHETLAND - Braer '93 & Klondykers '94 - Set of two zines

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Braer Oil Disaster, 1993 and Klondykers, Shetland 1994

Discounted SET of Two zines.

DISCOUNTED PRICE £14.00

Klondykers, Shetland Isles, 1994

40 Pages

27 Black and white photographs

Klondykers, East European fish factory ships, which in the early 1990’s dominated the seas and horizon off of the Shetland Isles, Scotland.

There they awaited buying up precious cargos of herring and mackerel to take back, tined or frozen, to Eastern Europe in the immediate years after the fall of Communism.

Three ships ran aground, others were detained in port, deemed unseaworthy and their owner companies refusing to bail them out.

Crews of two ships, the Aktinia and Rotalia, went unpaid and scavenged to make a living from the waste dumps of Shetland.

All the while waiting for the silver fish.

Featured ships show images from life on board the Boris Syromatnikov, from Murmansk, and the Krasnoputilovets. And the Pionersk, which ran aground on the rocks at Trebister Ness.

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Braer Oil Disaster, Shetland 1993

Braer Oil Disaster, 1993

A5 size

40 Pages

32 Black and white photographs

In early January 1993 I received a call from a newspaper picture editor asking me to go to the Shetland Isles to be part of a team reporting on the wrecking of the MV Braer, a tanker carrying 85,000 tonnes of crude oil, which was being driven ashore in wild storms. An environmental disaster was unfolding.

I flew north with the then Secretary of State for Scotland, Ian Lang, in a small plane, with views down to the Braer being buffeted by the storm’s waves as we arrived.
The tanker ship lay off Garths Ness, relentlessly pounded by the severe weather. Reaching the wreck was a walk along a farm track, up onto the cliffs, where you could photograph briefly, before having to wipe the oily spray from your camera lens.

By the end of my days there the ship had broken, and the bow stood out of the water. I believe nothing is now visible above water. But these images tell the story of that wild week in 1993. - Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert.

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Braer Oil Disaster, 1993 and Klondykers, Shetland 1994

Discounted SET of Two zines.

DISCOUNTED PRICE £14.00

Klondykers, Shetland Isles, 1994

40 Pages

27 Black and white photographs

Klondykers, East European fish factory ships, which in the early 1990’s dominated the seas and horizon off of the Shetland Isles, Scotland.

There they awaited buying up precious cargos of herring and mackerel to take back, tined or frozen, to Eastern Europe in the immediate years after the fall of Communism.

Three ships ran aground, others were detained in port, deemed unseaworthy and their owner companies refusing to bail them out.

Crews of two ships, the Aktinia and Rotalia, went unpaid and scavenged to make a living from the waste dumps of Shetland.

All the while waiting for the silver fish.

Featured ships show images from life on board the Boris Syromatnikov, from Murmansk, and the Krasnoputilovets. And the Pionersk, which ran aground on the rocks at Trebister Ness.

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Braer Oil Disaster, Shetland 1993

Braer Oil Disaster, 1993

A5 size

40 Pages

32 Black and white photographs