Poster of Cast and Crew in How Britain Worked - Season 1 - Episode 5 - Brixham Sailing Trawler

How Britain Worked - Season 1 - Brixham Sailing Trawler (Episode 5)

Plot: Guy helps restore the oldest surviving Brixham sailing trawler, the boat that launched the modern fishing industry and transformed the way a nation ate. Guy learns how the trawler's radical design saw off the competition, tries his hand at the precision joinery that made that design possible, tests his own version of an Industrial Revolution life jacket by jumping into the sea, and makes rope using the original machines that wove the ropes for Nelson's HMS Victory
Episode Aired On:
Sunday, November 18 2012
12 years ago