Watson was captaining the Farley, a rusty North Sea trawler built in Norway in 1958.

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The 120 ton (110 tonne) sidewinder trawler would spend upwards of a week at a time in the North Sea catching cod, plaice and haddock, initially for local fishing family WH Podd, but it last sailed in the late 1980s.

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