The Arctic Corsair museum ship. Has anyone been?

[HumberBridge82]

I heard the Arctic Corsair is finally open to visitors again after being restored. For anyone who doesn't know it's one of the last surviving Hull sidewinder trawlers and it's been turned into a museum ship near the old dry dock area.
My grandad was a trawlerman and I grew up hearing stories about the deep water trips to Iceland and the Arctic. The conditions on those ships were absolutely brutal. Freezing temperatures, massive waves, eighteen hour shifts gutting fish on a deck covered in ice. And they did it week after week for decades because it was the only work going in Hull.
The triple trawler disaster in 1968 killed fifty eight men from Hull in the space of a few weeks. Three ships went down. Nearly every family on Hessle Road was affected. It was one of the biggest peacetime maritime disasters in British history and hardly anyone outside Hull knows about it.
I think every Hull resident should visit the Arctic Corsair at least once. It's not just a museum, it's a memorial to the thousands of men who risked their lives to feed the country. And it's a massive part of understanding what Hull is and where it came from.

 

[DockWorker67]

I went last month and I'll be honest it hit me harder than I expected. My uncle worked on trawlers for twenty years. Seeing the inside of that ship, the cramped bunks, the tiny galley, the fish room where they'd work eighteen hour shifts in freezing temperatures. It brings home what those men went through. The exhibition about the triple trawler disaster had me in tears and I'm not someone who cries easily. Every person in Hull should visit. No excuses.

 

[TigerLily_HC]

Took the kids and they were fascinated. My daughter asked about a hundred questions about how people lived on such a small ship for weeks at a time. The interactive bits are well done for children and the volunteers who show you round clearly have a personal connection to the fishing industry. One of the guys showing us round said his dad sailed on the Arctic Corsair in the 70s. You can't get that kind of authenticity in a normal museum. Really powerful experience.