The Shrimpers

The Shrimpers are small boats that collect shrimps, hence their name. They all speak with Cockney accents and appear in various episodes. Their only speaking roles were In Ghosts & Warrior

Bio

 * They have a note-worthy role in the episode Ghosts, when a group of four or five are accidentally led into a mud bank whilst following Warrior as a guide through the fog back to port. They also appear in the episode Warrior, when Warrior nearly runs into them whilst they are fishing shrimps.

Appearances

 * Sunshine (cameos)
 * Pirate (cameos)
 * Regatta (cameos)
 * Warrior
 * High Tide (cameos)
 * Quarantine (cameos)
 * Ghosts
 * Jinxed (cameos)
 * High Winds (cameos)
 * Up River (cameos)
 * Bigg Freeze (cameos)

Behind the scenes

 * The Shrimper models were no longer in use after TUGS was cancelled, so the models were brought to the sister show of TUGS; Thomas &amp; Friends, where they could be used as rolling stock,the models were seen in different locations in seasons 3-4. It is unknown where the shrimper models are, especially when CGI animations was used to continue the television series of Thomas & Friends.
 * It is likely that the Shrimper models were build from model kits to save the costs of having to build custom models.

Voice Actors

 * John Baddeley and Chris Tulloch (TUGS)
 * Sukekiyo Kameyama, Keiji Fujiwara and Hideyuki Umezu (Japan)