The route through the trawling room is lined with models of trawlers. Take pleasure in discovering them, first of all those in this small corridor.
Shipbuilding yards
Over the course of our history, the shipyards have launched a large number of ships, from dundries to wooden and then steel trawlers, as well as sardine boats and passenger ships. These shipbuilding centres have given Étel and its river one of the finest fleets on the Atlantic coast.
For the record, between 1946 and 1968, La Rivière had six shipyards, which supplied the characteristic trawlers of the area, pinnaces, wooden hull boats, of which there were 88 during this period. These ships gave work to more than 1,600 maritime registrants, all of whom lived along the Rivière d'Étel.
Their activity was such that in 1963 and 1964 they landed 42,800 and 48,800 tonnes of fish, the fourth largest tonnage in France. These results did not fail to interest the shipowners from Lorient, who recruited the best crews from Etel, to entrust them with trawlers such as the Bisson, a stern trawler whose model you can admire.
The model of Vivaldi at 1/33rd scale (length of the model 69cm), Built in 1991 at the Mérré shipyards in Nort sur Erdre. 22.80 metres long, 6.70 metres wide.
She is a deep-sea trawler, practising bottom and pelagic trawling. She is the last trawler from Etel to have landed her catch in this port, during a tuna campaign. Sold on 20 June 2009, it is still operated by a Franco-Spanish company, registered in the maritime district of Bayonne.