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M.T. Navena (2) – FD172

Technical

Official Number: 187869
Yard Number: 1438
Completed: 1959
Gross Tonnage: 353
Net Tonnage: 125
Length : 39.9 ft
Breadth: 27.1 ft
Depth: 12.2
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: 736bhp 7-cyl 4SA diesel by Mirlees, Bickerton & Day of Stockport
Speed: 12.5 knots

History

1958: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby as NAVENA for J Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood. First Marr trawler fitted with a variable pitch propeller, and first Fleetwood trawler with a transom stern.
21.05.1959: Registered at Fleetwood (FD172).
28.01.1969: Transferred to P & J Johnson, Aberdeen (FD172).
02.01.1977: Sold to J Marr (Aberdeen) Ltd (FD172).
05.12.1973: Sailed from Aberdeen at 09:30 hours for the fishing grounds of the Faroes under the command of skipper James Clark.
06.12.1973: At 06:12 in the morning a mayday call was reported by Wick radio. NAVENA had been driven ashore in severe weather and was hard aground on the Orkneys, at Copinsay. Three other vessels, GLEN AFFRIC, BOUNTIFUL and COASTAL EXPRESS tried to reach her but they were some way off. Kirkwall lifeboat reported that the trawler was in a critical position with only the wheelhouse above water.

20 men from the Deerness Coastguard Rescue team were in sight of the vessel but the wind prevented them from getting a rocket line aboard. Because of this, and despite the severe conditions, a Sikorsky BA.S61 was scrambled from Dyce.

Battling through atrocious conditions the helicopter succeeded in reaching the stricken vessel and found her in a desperate condition. She had been driven beam on against jagged rocks and was in danger of breaking up. The crew of 12 men were huddled inside the wheelhouse waiting for rescue. In a consummate display of flying skills the pilot of the helicopter winched all the crew off in spite of the winds that were gusting in excess of 100mph, a feat that earned the pilot the Board of Trade Rescue Shield for the best rescue involving the saving of life during 1973.
All the crew were landed at Kirkwall.

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M.T. Navena FD172

M.T. Navena FD172
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M.T. Navena FD172

M.T. Navena FD172
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M.T. Navena FD172

M.T. Navena FD172
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M.T. Navena FD172

M.T. Navena FD172
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M.T. Navena FD172

M.T. Navena FD172
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mfv Niels John – FD278

Technical

Official Number: 167497
Gross tonnage: 27
Callsign: OYIW
Net Tonnage: 9
Length: 30 ft
Engine: 88hp diesel
Construction: Oak/beech/fir
Built: Frederiksund 1934

History

Wooden built fishing vessel built at Frederiksund in Denmark
24.09.1948: Arrived at Fleetwood carrying the body of Hans George Petersen, the Danish mate and part owner of the vessel who had been dragged over the side by the trawl and drowned. Sk. Peter Kristensen stopped engine and hauled immediately and found the mate tangled in the warp. He immediately attempted artificial respiration but to no avail.
1970s: in ownership of Edmund P. Kristensen, Fleetwood
05.05.1977: Sank 15 miles east of Ramsey

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mfv Niels John FD278

mfv Niels John FD278
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mfv Pygmalion – FD132

Technical

Gross tonnage: 35

History

The motor fishing vessel PYGMALION was trawling to the east of the Point of Ayre on the 26th of may 1964. Her skipper was Richard Billington Sumner Around 8:30 am the Calor gas stove exploded as the three man crew was having breakfast, knocking one man unconscious and injuring two others as fire quickly engulfed the vessel.
The crew launched the self-inflating liferaft but it didn’t inflate properly.The badly injured crewman was lowered into it by the other two as the Pygmalion sank, some 9 miles east of the Point of Ayre. It was a sunny day and distress rockets would have been of no use so a decision was made to wait until darkness before using them. To make matters worse a coal strike had reduced traffic to and from Whitehaven so no other vessel passed them.

They drifted for fourteen hours all the time within sight of the Isle of Man, but with no sign of rescue. The injured man, John Cowell, was in considerable pain and only an emergency injection of morphine eased his pain,
By 22:30 it had grown dark enough to use the flares and these were fired. The Whitehaven trawler LORRAINE
was outbound for the fishing grounds and she spotted the distress rockets and changed course towards the liferaft. Meanwhile the Ramsey lifeboat, ANNIE ROWLAND ISABELLA FORREST, was launched.
LORRAINE, under the command of Peter Haroldson, reached the liferaft, took the three crewmen aboard and set his course for Ramsey where an ambulance was waiting.

The crew of PYGMALION were:
Richard Billington Sumner, skipper
Les Patterson, deckhand
John Cowell, deckhand
All were from Fleetwood

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mfv Pygmalion BM27

mfv Pygmalion BM27
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M.T. Vanessa Ann – FD133

Technical

Official Number: 183981
Yard Number: 403
Completed: 1951
Gross Tonnage: 168
Net Tonnage: 55
Length: 103.0 ft
Breadth: 22.1 ft
Depth: 10.5 ft
Oil Engine: 2 stroke 6-cyl 540bhp Type K461by British Polar Engines Ltd, Glasgow

History

11.1951: Completed by Richards Ironworks Ltd, Lowestoft (Yd.No. 403) for Rhondda Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Sir John D. Marsden, Bart, manager) as VANESSA ANN. Registered at Lowestoft (LT254).
1.5.1955: Out of Grimsby on a North Sea trip started to take in water. Fault traced to bilge pump line, repaired and resumed fishing.
1957: Sold to Dalby Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Bowden Ramster, manager). Lowestoft registry closed. Registered at Fleetwood (FD133). Later to F. E. Catchpole, Lowestoft and on to offshore platform standby/rescue.
1973: Laid up at Lowestoft with main and big end bearings run due to gasket failure of oil pump.
1973: Re engined with 2-cyl 250bhp Hundested oil engine, CP propeller
1973: Sold to Alan Warren Smallwood, Fulham for conversion to a floating workshop (for South Pacific service). Later laid up River Thames.
1984: Sold (due to ill health) to Reg Marsh & Jack Scott for conversion to an auxiliary topsail schooner.
1984-85: Re built at Padstow. Sail area 538 sq.metres.
6.1985: Sailed Padstow for Antigua with the intention of running day charters. Not a success due to local opposition.
1986: Sold to Charles W. Clowes & David Cox, based Barbados. Again not successful.
1990: Decided to return to UK. Prepared for voyage in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Sailed for Plymouth.
3.7.1990: Arrived Plymouth. Surveyed and in poor condition.
1991: Sold to Joseph Maria Kelly for private use. On the death of his mother the vessel’s name was changed to SANTA BARBARA ANNA, in commemoration. Engaged in charter work.
1995: Arrived Rostock. Ceded by the Kelly Family for use of teenagers and adolescents funded by City of Rostock.
2000: Funding withdrawn due to financial constraints support of charities and volunteers obtained.
2006: During maintenance a 4000kg oak keel fitted to improve sailing capability.
7.2006: Sail area increased to 667 sq.metres.

Note from Sk. John Brackenbury

The Vanessa Ann first sailed from Lowestoft and Grimsby, she never sailed to Iceland and
she was not involved in the the cod war, but she did fish in the North sea,

At some stage she had an explosion in her engine room. This happened as she was sailing from Grimsby two engineers were killed. After that she was bought by the Dalby Steam Fishing Company and brought to Fleetwood, she was a near water boat and fished the Irish sea and up and down the West Coast of Scotland.

Among previous skippers were George Wood, Chopper Harrison, myself and a few others.
she was a great sea ship .
I was in command in the storm of 1969 winds gusting to 140 mph, we rode it out for sixteen hours just SW of Barra Head and a German cargo ship the LUSADANUR shifted its cargo and Barra lifeboat went to its rescue and capsized, they both made it back to Castle Bay.

I hope this help to complete her early life,

Yours Sincerely
John Brackenbury

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M.T. Vanessa Ann FD133

M.T. Vanessa Ann FD133
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M.T. Vanessa Ann FD133

M.T. Vanessa Ann FD133
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M.T. Vanessa Ann FD133

M.T. Vanessa Ann FD133
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M.T. Vanessa Ann FD133

M.T. Vanessa Ann FD133

M.T. Vanessa Ann FD133

M.T. Vanessa Ann FD133
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M.T. Vanessa Ann FD133

M.T. Vanessa Ann FD133
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sv Santa Barbara Anna

sv Santa Barbara Anna

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M.T. Dorinda (2) – FD22

Technical

Official Number: 185305
Yard Number: 1405
Completed: 1959
Gross Tonnage: 334
Net Tonnage: 113
Length: 132′ 5″
Breadth: 26′ 7″
Depth: 11′ 7″
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: 700bhp 5-cyl British Polar
Speed: 11.25 knots

History

1955: Completed by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby for J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood as DORINDA.
08.11.1955: Registered at Fleetwood (FD22).
10.04.1973: Fishing registry closed “no longer fishing”.
12.11.1973: Sold to M.R. & T.J. Clarkson.
21.07.1974: M.R. & T.J. Clarkson (43 shares) & T.J. McLaughlin (21 shares) joint owners.(converted to an Oil Rig Stand-by Safety Vessel).
1978: Sold to World Wide Surveys Ltd Panama.
1997: Noted by Lloyds Register of Shipping. “Vessel’s continued existence in doubt”.

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M.T. Dorinda FD22

M.T. Dorinda FD22
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M.T. Dorinda FD22

M.T. Dorinda FD22
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M.T. Dorinda FD22

M.T. Dorinda FD22
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M.T. Dorinda FD22

M.T. Dorinda FD22
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M.T. Dorinda FD22

M.T. Dorinda FD22
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M.T. Dorinda FD22

M.T. Dorinda FD22
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M.T. Jean Marthe – FD233

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger & Barry Banham

Technical

Official number : 301880
Gross tonnage: 222
Net Tonnage: 117
Length: 106 ft
Breadth: 22.6 ft
Depth: 10.7 ft
Built: Bath Ironworks Corp, Bath, ME
Engine: 6-cyl oil engine by Aktieselskabet Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen

History

1948: Completed by Bath Ironworks Corp, Bath, ME. Transferred to Government of France, Paris under the Marshal Plan (European Recovery Program). Registered at Boulogne as JEAN-MARTHE (B??).
By 1950s: Owned by Société “Les Doris”, Boulogne-sur-Mer.
By 08.1960: Owned by Dalby Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
1961: Re-engined with 6-cyl 450bhp oil engine by Ruston & Hornsby Ltd, Lincoln.
1961: Remeasured 187g. 67n.Registered (Part I & Part IV) at Fleetwood O.N.301880 (FD233).
1971: Sold to Putford Enterprises Ltd, Lowestoft & Paignton.
12.09.1971: Arrived Lowestoft, fitted for offshore platform standby safety role.
14.9.1971: Sailed Lowestoft for North Sea on standby duties.
05.1976: Sold for to T. G. Darling breaking up at the Oulton Broad yard of East Anglian Reclamation. Fleetwood registry closed.
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M.T. Jean Marthe FD233

M.T. Jean Marthe FD233
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M.T. Jean Marthe FD233

M.T. Jean Marthe FD233
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M.T. Jean Marthe FD233

M.T. Jean Marthe FD233
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M.T. Jean Marthe FD233

M.T. Jean Marthe FD233
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M.T. Jean Marthe FD233

M.T. Jean Marthe FD233
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M.T. Jean Marthe FD233

M.T. Jean Marthe FD233
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M.T. Corena – FD173

Technical

Official Number: 301876
Yard Number: 1439
Completed: 1959
Gross Tonnage: 353
Net Tonnage: 125
Length: 132.9 ft
Breadth: 27.1 ft
Depth: 12.2 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: 736bhp 7-cyl Mirlees
Speed: 12 knots
Owner: J Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood

History

1959: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby for J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood, as CORENA
20.06.1959 Registered at Fleetwood (FD173).
23.05.1969: Responded to a distress call from the 199 ton Dutch coaster TEUNIKA, making water 10 miles off Coll. CORENA (Sk. R. Nash) connected and began tow but TEUNIKA began to sink so the crew abandoned and were picked up by CORENA and landed at Tobermory.
24.07.1970: Sold to Ranger Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (FD173).
04.10.1971: Sold to Forward Motor Trawlers, Aberdeen (FD173).
30.01.1973: Fishing registry closed. (Converted into an Oil Rig Stand-by Safety Vessel).
22.03.1978: Sold to Colne Shipping of Lowestoft.
06.1978: Renamed TRINIDAD.
31.01.1987: Sold to shipbreakers Liguria Maritime Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent and broken up at Milton Creek.

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M.T. Corena FD173

M.T. Corena FD173
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M.T. Corena FD173

M.T. Corena FD173
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M.T. Corena FD173

M.T. Corena FD173
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M.T. Corena FD173

M.T. Corena FD173
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M.T. Corena FD173

M.T. Corena FD173
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M.T. Corena FD173
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M.T. Corena FD173

M.T. Corena FD173
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M.T. Corena FD173

M.T. Corena FD173
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S.S.V. Trinidad

S.S.V. Trinidad
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M.T. Irvana (3) – FD141

Technical

Official Number: 341755
Yard Number: 543
IMO: 7122481
Completed: 1973
Gross: Tonnage 533
Net Tonnage: 178
Length: 137.8 ft
Breadth: 32.8 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Built: Grangemouth Dockyard Co Ltd
Engine: Oil engine (Type 12RKX) 4 stroke 12-cyl Vee 1901bhp/1398kW by Ruston Paxman Diesels Ltd, Newton-le-Willows – CP prop

History

19.10.1971: Launched by Grangemouth Dockyard Co Ltd, Grangemouth (Yd.No.543) for J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood as IRVANA.
3.1972: Completed. Registered at Fleetwood (FD141).
1982: Transferred to Hull.
1.1985: Sold in an en bloc deal along with GAVINA (FD126) and LUNEDA (FD134) to CAM Shipping Co Ltd, Hull (Claridge/Associated/Marr). Fleetwood fishing registry closed. Converted to offshore platform standby safety role – remeasured. Renamed CAM RETRIEVER.
1985: Re-measured 594gt, 178nt, 324dw.
1990: Owners restyled CAM Standby Ltd.
1995: CAM fleet sold to Viking Standby Ltd, Montrose, owner became Viking Standby 3 Ltd. Renamed VIKING RETRIEVER.
11.2005: Sold for demolition in Denmark.

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M.T. Irvana FD141

M.T. Irvana FD141
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M.T. Irvana FD141

M.T. Irvana FD141
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M.T. Irvana FD141

M.T. Irvana FD141
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M.T. Irvana FD141

M.T. Irvana FD141
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M.T. Irvana FD141

M.T. Irvana FD141
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M.T. Irvana FD141

M.T. Irvana FD141
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M.T. Irvana (2) – FD152

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger

Technical

Official Number: 185291
Yard Number: 855
Launched: 19/09/1951
Registered: 06/01/1953
Completed: 1953
Gross Tonnage: 296
Net Tonnage: 102
Length: 128.2 ft
Breadth: 26.6 ft
Depth: 12.2 ft
Oil Engine: 700bhp 7-cyl by Mirlees Bickerton & Day
Speed 11 knots

History

19.09.1951: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.855) for J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood as IRVANA.
16.01.1953: Completed at a cost of £81,609.
01.1953: Registered at Fleetwood (FD152). Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Brough appointed manager (Mark Stanley Hamer, Fleetwood manager).
1959: Taken in hand by Humber St. Andrew’s Engineering Co Ltd, Hull for lengthening.
14.01.1960: Vessel registered anew in consequence of material alterations (FD152).
22.04.1961: At Fleetwood, having left lock for fishing grounds (Sk. E. Harris) grounded on Tiger’s Tail. In backing off in collision with trawler FLEETWOOD LADY (FD1) (Sk. Ken Beavers) which was following astern. No damage sustained and proceeded to sea.
23.03.1964: At 0930 sailed Fleetwood for west of Iceland grounds (Sk. Charles Louis Scott); seventeen hands all told. There was a southerly breeze with rain and drizzle though visibility was adequate. At some time Sk. Scott decided to make for Cushendun Bay, Co. Antrim, ostensibly to enable the crew to rig the gear as he believed the weather forecast would not enable them to do this safely on passage to Iceland. The skipper had been into Cushendun Bay on four previous occasions but never in darkness. This part of the Antrim coast is remarkably devoid of aids to navigation and the skipper attempted to find a safe anchorage using only radar and some shore lights; no attempt was made to use the two echo-sounders or hand lines. In consequence when ordering the anchor to be dropped Sk. Scott had no idea of how much water there was under the vessel nor did he take into account the direction and force of the tide. The skipper then retired to his cabin without ascertaining whether or not the anchor was holding. At 2150 the vessel struck rocks with her after end on the port side, engine was worked but propeller stripped and engine stopped. The vessel was held fast at the northern end of Cushendun Bay in position 55.8,12N 06.01,54W. Although the vessel was not making water, the order to abandon was given and all the crew safely reached the shore in the inflatable life-rafts.
25.04.1964: Refloated and towed to Port Glasgow for slipping and survey.
05.1964: Following survey declared beyond economical repair and sold to Shipbreaking Industries Ltd, Glasgow for breaking up at Faslane.
10.06.1964: Arrived Faslane from Port Glasgow in tow.
06.1964: Fleetwood registry closed.
18.11.1964: At the Formal Investigation (No.S.470) held at Fleetwood, the Court found that the stranding and consequent damage to IRVANA were caused by the wrongful act or default of Charles Louis Scott, her Skipper, in attempting to bring her to anchor in Cushendun Bay in darkness without taking the necessary steps to ascertain his position or the strength of the natural forces affecting the navigation of the vessel and suspended his Full Certificate of Competency for a period of 24 calendar months from 23rd day of March, 1964. Sk. Scott was ordered to pay £250 towards the cost of the Inquiry.

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S.T. Irvana FD152

S.T. Irvana FD152
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M.T. Irvana FD152

M.T. Irvana FD152
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M.T. Irvana FD152

M.T. Irvana FD152

M.T. Irvana FD152

M.T. Irvana FD152
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M.T. Idena – FD325

Technical

Official Number: 365779
Yard Number: 586
Completed: 1976
Launched: 6.11.1975
Registered: 1976
Gross Tonnage: 387
Net Tonnage: 145
Length: 129 ft
Breadth: 31.9 ft
Depth: 12. 6 ft
Engine: Blackstone 1700 hp / 1268 kw

History

1976: Completed by Goole Shipbuilding & Repair Co Ltd, Goole (Yd. No. 586) for J Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood as IDENA. Registered at Fleetwood (FD325
1977: 6th highest grossing vessel with a total of £355,677 after 19 trips.)
09.1978: IDENA, NORINA and ARMANA, took part in N.A.T.O.’s biggest exercise of the year called Operation Northern Wedding. The naval minesweeper “H.M.S. CROFTON” came into Fleetwood to put minesweeping equipment on board the trawlers, the exercise lasted two weeks.
3.7.1980: Set a new pair trawling grossing record with the “NORINA” (FD324). The two vessels landed a combined total catch of 3,419 10 stone kits for a grossing of £89,262.
07.1982: Transferred to Hull.
1999: Sold to Crystal Fishing Co. Ltd, (Anglo Spanish owners) Milford Haven, and converted for gill net fishing, J. & C. Souto, Milford Haven, agents, later re-named “SKUA” (FD325).
2004: Owned by the Pembroke Fishing Co. Ltd, Milford Haven.
2008: Still working.
Until 10.2012: named “FLOMER I” registered in Panama, fishing out of La Coruna, Spain.
Undated: Renamed “ESPEMAR DOS”, owners ??
23.4.2013: Fishing off the west coast Scotland, near Butt of Lewis.

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M.T. Idena FD325

M.T. Idena FD325
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M.T. Idena FD325

M.T. Idena FD325
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M.T. Idena FD325

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M.T. Idena FD325

M.T. Idena FD325
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M.T. Idena FD325

M.T. Idena FD325
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M.T. Idena FD325

M.T. Idena FD325
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M.T. Idena FD325

M.T. Idena FD325
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M.T. Idena FD325

M.T. Idena FD325
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