Category Archives: Inshore Fishing Vessels

M.T. Tudor Queen – FD326

Additional information courtesy of Glyn Woods

Technical

Official Number: 365787
Gross Tons 35
Net Tons 24
Length 49 feet
Radio Call Sign MXCS

History

1956 – Built Macduff
1968 – Registered as BF51 – owner W. Wilson, Macduff
1980 – Registered as FD326 – owner Roy Belcher & others, Fleetwood
1987 – owner Margaret Belcher & others, Fleetwood

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M.T. Tudor Queen FD326

M.T. Tudor Queen FD326
Picture courtesy of Frank Pook

M.T. Tudor Queen FD326

M.T. Tudor Queen FD326
Picture courtesy of Frank Pook

Changelog
06/10/2016: Page re-published due to site problems.

mfv Hamoaze – PH5

Additional information courtesy of Mike Coyle and David Slinger

Technical

Official Number: 184141
Gross Tonnage: 60.66
Net Tonnage: 21.91
Length: 85.9 ft
Breadth: 20.1 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft

History

1955: Built by Mashford’s (CREMYLL SHIP YARD) Cremyll,Torpoint, Cornwall
1955: Keel laid.
1956: Registered at Plymouth (PH5).
1964 Moved to Fleetwood, registered as HAMOAZE FD358
1965: Olsen’s, joint owners listed as James W Wright (Fisherman) Cleveleys and Ernest salthouse (Fish Merchant) Fleetwood.
1967 Under tow to Glasson when the tow parted and stranded on Pilling Sands.
01.08.1967: Fleetwood registry was closed.
1968: Olsen’s, joint owners listed as Borislaw Stanislow Howard and David Atkinson
Undated: In ownership of Cliff and Jack Davies, general dealers, Fleetwood.
Undated: In ownership of Preston businessman Mr. William Tyrer
Post 1973: Refloated by LAUWERSZEE FD307 (Sk. Mick Ryan) and towed to Stannah for rebuilding. Subsequently hulked at Skippool Creek.

Notes from Melvyn Lloyd.
The 70ft Hamoaze PH5 was the first trawler to be built in Plymouth after WW2.
Her principal owner and Skipper was Archie Jennings (who was my Uncle) his mate and partner was his son-in-law Jack Forster.
My father and I went on her first sea trial and me being only 13 yrs old it made a great impression on me.
Hamoaze was equipped with a fish sonar and Archie took great pains in explaining to me how it worked
and gave me some of the print-offs to take home.
I also recall that Archie was not enamoured by the builders who had concreted in the ballast, other than that he was pleased with the vessel.
Previous to moving back to Plymouth Archie skippered trawlers out of Milford Avon throughout the war and after on 14 day trips. His hobby was embroidery, I presume that this was a take-on from mending nets.

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mfv Hamoaze PH5

mfv Hamoaze PH5
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

mfv Hamoaze FD358

mfv Hamoaze FD358
Picture courtesy of The David Slinger Collection

mfv Hamoaze FD358

mfv Hamoaze FD358
Picture courtesy of The David Slinger Collection

mfv Lauwerszee FD307

mfv Lauwerszee FD307
Picture from the Internet

Changelog
03/10/2016: Page re-published due to site problems.
22/12/2023: Added images and updated history.

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
Picture courtesy of Stephen Myerscough

Changelog
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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
Picture courtesy of Keith South

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mfv Northards – FD71

Technical

Gross Tonnage: 34
Net Tonnage: 14
Length: 52.0 ft
Breadth: 15.5 ft
Depth: 7.1 ft
Oil Engine: 110bhp 4 stroke 6-cyl Type 6LX by Gardner Engines Ltd, Patricroft, Manchester

History

1956: Completed by Thomsons, Buckie for John N. Ward & Son Ltd, Fleetwood (Sam Knight, manager) as NORTHARDS. Registered at Fleetwood (FD71).
1.1961: Sk. R. S. Carlsson awarded MBE for service in salvage operations for recovery of aircraft lost at sea.
By 1964: Sold to Delga Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby.
By 1970: Sold to Charles B. Bird & Brian C. Bird, Fleetwood.
1976: Registered Part IV 23g 23n RSSNo.A1224.
1974: Sold to John Cowell, Thornton & David C. Rainford, Fleetwood.
1976: Sold to John Cowell & David Cavanagh, Fleetwood. Registered at Fleetwood under Part IV (FD371).
By 1979: Sold to John Cowell & David C. Rainford, Fleetwood.
1984: Fleetwood registry closed. Registered at Leith (LH20).
By1993: Sold to John Arkle, Newbiggin, Northumberland.
2003: Sold to Scottish owners and laid at Montrose.
200?: Sank under tow on passage to Bridlington.

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mfv Northards FD71

mfv Northards FD71
Picture courtesy of Fred Baker

mfv Northards LH20

mfv Northards LH20
Picture courtesy of George Westwood

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07/09/2016: Page re-published due to site problems.

mfv Westards – FD39

Technical

Official Number: 185303
Built: Buckie in 1955
Gross Tonnage: 30
Net Tonnage: 13
Length: 46′ 9″
Engine: 114 hp
Owner: Thomas Kirk of Fleetwood

History

1965: Owned by Thomas Kirk of Fleetwood.
1970: Owned by Richard Donnan of Whitehaven.

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mfv Westards FD39

mfv Westards FD39

Changelog
06/09/2016: Page re-published after site problems.