Legendary Purse Seiners: Consortium Gamma WB 233

Early in 1971, the Consortium Visserye factory at Walvis Bay entered the contentious field of dual purpose fishing vessels. At the time Consortium Visserye was faced with the problem of operating both a fish meal plant as well as a white fish factory. Thus the company was forced to operate two fleets consisting of entirely different types of vessels. The company’s white fish trawling division consisted of steel vessels, mostly former Dutch beamers such as the Egmont and the Deo Volente, while the pelagic fleet consisted of wooden hull vessels, such as the Consortium Alpha and Consortium Beta.