The Fleetwood Motor Trawler Site

Date and Venue
Saturday 12th December 2009 – Fleetwood Museum

The museum is open from 11:00 – 16:00 with free admission.

Information
The museum will be open from 11-4pm and entrance for all will be free. The purpose is to allow anyone wishing to remember the Red Falcon and her crew or any other boat or crew member, the chance to do so in an area linked with Fleetwood’s Maritime Heritage. The museum has many memorial plaques including one for the Red Falcon and her crew as well as model boats and various artefacts.

The Mayor will lay a wreath on the Fisherman’s memorial on the prom at 2pm and there will be a short service by the Fisherman’s Mission representative.

More information coming soon.

Vessel Information
Information about the loss can be found here.
Vessel History can be found here.

DO YOU HAVE AMATEUR FILM & MEMORIES OF THE FISHING INDUSTRY IN & AROUND
FLEETWOOD?

Available Light Productions, Bristol is producing for BBC 4 a three part documentary series “the Story of the Sea”. One programme will be on the changes the fishing industry has seen in the last hundred years or so.

The programmes will be based on amateur films and the experiences of local people – often appearing in those films.

We are particularly looking for people who have made amateur films / home movies of their work in the fishing industry, preferably over a period of decades – and who can tell us about the changes they have seen taking place. Can you help?

Please contact:
Sue Bennett: 0117 908 4433
sbennett@availablelight.tv

Fleetwood Trawler – M.V. Westards FD39
Official Number: 185303
Built: Buckie in 1955
Gross Tonnage: 30
Net Tonnage: 13
Length: 46′ 9” ft
Engine: 114 hp
Owner: Thomas Kirk of Fleetwood

History
1965: Owner was Thomas Kirk of Fleetwood.

1970: Owner was Richard Donnan of Whitehaven.

Images

Westards FD39, Courtesy of Fred Baker