M.F.V. Children’s Friend FD225
Additional information courtesy of Mike Craine.
Technical
Official Number: 303795
Completed: 1938
RSS No.A1672
Gross Tonnage: 21
Net Tonnage: 9
Length: 45’-0” (13,76)
Breadth: 15’-6” (4,71)
Depth: 5’-7”(1,71) feet (metres)
Oil Engine: 66BHP 4 stoke 3-cyl by Kelvin Diesel Co Ltd, Glasgow
History
1938: Completed by William Weatherhead & Sons Ltd, Cockenzie for James Neill, Port Seton & others, as SUNBEAM III.
12.9.1938: Registered at Leith (LH215).
By 1969: Fleetwood owned. Leith registry closed. Registered at Fleetwood (FD225).
1970: Sold to Alexander Cox, Bishop’s Stortford. Fishing from Lowestoft.
By 1972: Owned by Alexander Cox, Ipswich.
By 1974: Owned by John Sharman, Lowestoft & Thomas M. Peck, Gt. Yarmouth.
1975: Sold to George A. R. Teesdale, Dunstable.
By 1980: Sold to Garer Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft.
By 1993: Owned by Terence Lewis, Penzance.
1996: Not registered under this name.
By2000: Owned by William Stevenson, Newlyn. Converted to a Cornish lugger. Fleetwood registry closed. Registered at Penzance (PZ101).
2011: Extant.
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M.F.V. Children's Friend FD225
Picture courtesy of Clione412 (TPF)
S.V. Children's Friend PZ101
Picture © Laurence Hartwell
Children’s Friend was built as the Sunbeam III LH215. After Fleetwood she fished from Lowestoft. She was converted by Billy Stevenson in Newlyn.
Hello Mike
Thanks for that piece of information. It adds another piece to the jigsaw. We could now do with some information about her conversion.