Fleetwood Trawler - M.F.V. Athabasca FD242
Official number: 303793
Gross Tonnage: 74grt / 46nrt
Length: 68 ft
Engine: 240 bhp
Built: Herd and Mackenzie, Buckie, 1959
History
1959: Built as Yukon Star BCK98
1965: To Fleetwood registration.
1972(?): Sold to Bantry Fishing Co Ltd & Strandby Fishing Co Ltd, Cleethorpes. (At this point se was re-measured under Part IV of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 and as a result lost her O.N. and became 50grt 50n.)
1973: To Bantry Fishing Co Ltd, Cleethorpes. Registered at Grimsby (GY288).
Sometime in the late 1970s she was re-engined and owners became Bantry Fishing Co Ltd, Cleethorpes & Fylkir Ltd, Grimsby.
Around 1984 she was sold to Jack Robinson (Hull) Ltd, Driffield.
Again about 1985 she went to Magnus J. Jamieson, Shetland & Others and was renamed Our Van Claire (GY288).
October 1985: Sold to Peter Lee and Steve Dell, Good Hope Fishing Company, Fleetwood.
1989: Sold.
1996: Deccomissioned and broken up at Skipool.
Images
M.V. Athabasca FD242 - Courtesy of Tony Frith
M.V. Our Van Claire GY288 - laid up before going too Skipool for breaking. Picture courtesy of Tony Frith
Posted under Fleetwood Trawlers
This post was written by Alan Duggan on November 12, 2008
Alan she was deccomissioned in 1996 and broke up at Skipool.Photo of her on the trawler web site laid on the marsh before going too Skipool.
Hello Tony, thanks for information.
I cannot locate the image on the site any chance of a link to the page ?
Thanks
Alan Duggan
Hi Alan not computer minded so i don’t know really how to do that.To get the photo on the trawlers web site,type Our Van Claire in the search box top right of page and it should come up i did it to get the date of my photo for you just before i posted the coment.
Tony.
Thanks Tony, could i use the image ?
Yes Alan you can it will finish the history off.
Tony.
Thanks Tony.