FOOT-ROPE CARRIED AWAY. The rope which drags the bottom of the trawl along the ground is called the foot-rope, its component parts being a stout steel wire, over an inch thick, served with heavy Manilla rope. Such is the strain on the net that even this substantial affair snapped more than once when working on a foul bottom.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIX, Issue 21, 23 November 1907, Page 8
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58FOOT-ROPE CARRIED AWAY. The rope which drags the bottom of the trawl along the ground is called the foot-rope, its component parts being a stout steel wire, over an inch thick, served with heavy Manilla rope. Such is the strain on the net that even this substantial affair snapped more than once when working on a foul bottom. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIX, Issue 21, 23 November 1907, Page 8
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