Technical

Official Number: 187845
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
Built: Thomsons, Buckie

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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M.F.V. Northards LH20
Picture courtesy of The George Westwood Collection

M.F.V. Northards FD71

M.F.V. Northards FD71

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Technical

Official Number: 306823
RSS No.A19746
Completed: 1965
Gross Tonnage: 97
Net Tonnage: 52
Length: 69’-7” (21,23)
Breadth: 22’-3” (6,78)
Depth: 9’-7” (2,93) feet (metres)
Oil Engine Caterpillar D353TA – 380bhp
Re-engined Caterpillar 565bhp/421kW?

History

18.9.1965: Launched by Herd & Mackenzie Ltd, Buckie for William J. V. Chambers, Annalong, Co. Down as GREEN PASTURES II.
1965: Completed. Registered at Newry (N210).
12.1965: Landed 2,000st of white fish from 12 day trip, grossed £2,586.
1960s-1970s: Seasonal pair trawling for herring with SPES MELIOR (N145).
By 1980: Owned by William E. McCullough, Annalong, Co. Down.
By 1986: Owned by A. I. McCullough, Annalong, Co. Down.
By 1988: Owned by David C. Rainford, Little Singleton, Blackpool & David Buston, Fleetwood.
1994: Owned by David Buston, Fleetwood.
1995: Sold to Murdoch Macrea, Kyle of Lochalsh, Ross-shire.
2002: Ceased fishing. Newry registry closed. Sold to Mallaig for possible preservation but broken up.

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M.F.V. Green Pasture II N210
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M.F.V. Green Pasture II N210
Picture courtesy of Lee Brown

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Technical

Official Number: 183993
Yard Number: 416
Completed: 1953
Gross Tonnage: 115
Net Tonnage: 46
Length: 87.8 ft
Breadth: 20.5 ft
Depth: 9.5 ft
Oil Engine: 4 stroke 6-cyl 300BHP by Ruston & Hornsby Ltd, Lincoln
Built: Richards Ironworks Ltd, Lowestoft

History

30.6.1953: Launched by Richards Ironworks Ltd, Lowestoft (Yd.No.416) for Small & Co (Lowestoft) Ltd, Lowestoft as YOUNG ELIZABETH.
8.1953: Completed (David F. Cartwright MC MBE, manager). Registered at Lowstoft (LT375).
By 1962: Hobsons (Lowestoft) Ltd designated managers.
1969: Sold to Offshore Oil Rig Services Ltd, St. Helier, Jersey (Gus Jenkins, Lowestoft). Lowestoft fishing register closed. Employed in offshore platform standby/safety role.
1977: Sold to Putford Enterprise Ltd, Lowestoft (Boston Putford Offshore Safety Ltd, managers).
1977: Converted to offshore platform standby/safety vessel.
1987: Sold to P. V. Rayner, Newmarket. Employed as a charter vessel.
3.1988: Laid up at Portsmouth.
9.1988: Reported sold but sale not concluded. Remained laid up at Portsmouth, registered as a private vessel (Yacht). Subsequently sold for conversion to a houseboat/live-aboard.
17.10.11: Berthed in Amsterdam

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M.D/T. Young Elizabeth LT375
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M.D/T. Young Elizabeth LT375
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M.D/T. Young Elizabeth LT375
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M.D/T. Young Elizabeth LT375
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M.D/T. Young Elizabeth LT375
Picture courtesy of The George Westwood Collection

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A new gallery has been posted HERE featuring pictures of Vanessa Ann in her role as a topsail schooner. Ann pictures are provided by Andrea Grylls and the crew.

The following information is provided by Andrea Grylls

The History of “SANTA BARBARA ANNA”

The quiet checkered life of the vessel “Santa Barbara Anna” begins in 1951. A 100´ diesel-trawler with no. LT254 was built in this year in the Richards Ironworks shipyard in Lowestoft near the east coast of middle England. It was ordered by the Rhondda Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby, for the purpose of deep-sea fishing in the North Atlantic.

The ship is made out of steel, is riveted and has specifics as follow: 30,4 meter length, 7 meter width, 316 tons displacement and 3, 5 meter draft and contains a 8 cylinder – diesel – motor. The vessel could carry 30 tons fuel in 2 tanks for a trip that was a week long.
The ship was named “Vanessa Ann”.

Typical features of a ship used for open sea work are the high forecastle, the flare of the bow for a soft plunge into water and the midships raised wheel house. Furthermore there were 2 masts for working, for example to control the parts of the fishing gear.

The medium-sized open sea trawler “Vanessa Ann” was transferred from Lowestoft to the harbour of Fleetwood in 1957 and was registered as FD133 under the flag of the United Kingdom.

Later in years “Vanessa Ann”was used by new owners as a supervisory – ship for oil platforms in the offshore area of the North Sea. After the crank shaft of the engine broke, the ship was finally sold.
A British buyer was looking for a ship with an appropriate hull which he could rebuild as a cargo – sailor to carry on a trade in the area of the South Pacific islands. It was recommended to buy one of the arctic trawlers, built in the 1950s, with elegant underwater – lines (which are ideal for sailing) and sturdy riveted steel – hulls. Even so he saw his ideas matched with the vessel “Vanessa Ann”, which he brought and towed to Denmark, where he put in a new Hundested – motor (8 – cylinder in series with 250 HP) and a new controllable pitch propeller.

His intention was to navigate his new ship to London, to do some more rebuilding work but he fell ill and had to sell the vessel in 1984. Marine engineer Reg March and rigger Jack Scott bought the “Vanessa Ann”. An expensive reconstruction took place in the years 1984 to 1985 in Padstow (Cornwall): the high forecastle and the bridge structure of the Vanessa Ann had been removed. The deck house beneath it was rebuilt as a deck lounge and chart room and was sheltered with a sun deck which had its wall down to the ship’s sides. All decks were covered with teak wood.

The accommodation (four bunks in forecastle (currently the rope store), two single cabins in the aft section and, behind it, seven bunks at the “Hotel over the propeller”) of the crew stayed in original condition, for the reason that the schooner only should transport day trip guests.

The former fish room was converted to a big temperature controlled disco and barroom.
Using the foundations of the fishing gear, the ship was rigged up as schooner.
The working masts were replaced by steel masts and an additional mast, made of steel, was placed on deck in front of the deck house. The wooden yard, topmast, booms and gaffs are basically the characteristics of the rig of that three-masted topsail schooner.

The length of that ship was extended to 44,2 meter due to the addition of a jib boom, whereas with the expansion of the prow, to take up the jib boom, the hull length enlarged to 34,1 meter.
The middle mast was 27,7 meters high above water, and the entire surface of the 12 sails were 538 square meters in wind – above all that, the ship “Vanessa Ann” should transport 200 day trip guests.
At the first sailing tours in the year 1985, the “Vanessa Ann” has proved itself to be a good sailing vessel. In June of the very same year, the ship set sail towards Antigua (Lesser Antilles) to make day trip tours from there in the next months. This plan was not welcomed within the locally resident tourism companies – these oppositions were reasons to sell the ship.

The “Vanessa Ann” was stationed on Barbados (Lesser Antilles) by her new owners Charles W. Clowes and David Cox in 1986. The ship was the best ship in the whole area, but still could not put across their range with day trip tours without help of her owners in England. Therefore she had been brought home in 1990. In St. Thomas on the US Virgin Islands was she made ready for the passage to England. After a long journey, “Vanessa Ann” reached Plymouth on the 3rd of July in 1990. The vessel was in bad condition – the new canvas were not suitable for sailing anymore, the Hundested – motor was unreliable and the interior furnishing was totally worn out.

The current owner Joe Kelly (Joseph Maria Kelly) bought the neglected vessel in the year 1993. The ship was renovated with considerable effort and costs and partly adjusted to the needs of her new owner, who lived with an extended family. The accommodation was upgraded with teak wood and the bunks extended to 11 at the aft crew’s quarters, nine at bow crew’s quarters and three in the skipper cabin. As part of the renovation, the decks were renewed with new wood cover.
“Vanessa Ann” was used as private ship for sailing, relaxing and advertising purposes and spend a lot of time in Dublin and Cork, Ireland – based on the fact that the “Kelly Family” has its musically origin in the Irish folk music. The ship was registered in her home port of Lowestoft and sailed under the British flag.

After the death of their mother Barbara Anna, the family changed the name of the ship “Vanessa Ann” – she was named “Santa Barbara Anna” in memory of their beloved mother.
The vessel “Santa Barbara Anna” did sailing tours into the Irish Sea, to France, the Netherlands and into the Baltic Sea.

The year 1995 was the first time the ship touched at the harbour of Rostock, Germany and the contact to supporters and teenagers began and expanded.
Due to the fact, that the Kelly Family was very busy and did not have much time to spend on the “Santa Barbara Anna”, the idea occurred to cede the ship for use to teenagers and adolescents of Rostock, who were interested in the sailing sports.
Unfortunately, the city of Rostock had to reject the offer in the middle of the year 2000 for reasons of finance.
Since then the usage and maintenance has been ensued by a charitable and volunteering association which has contact with socially endangered teenagers and is willing to help them.
All the work that on board is done by members of the crew. The crew consists mostly of former seamen, navigators, teenagers and people who are willing to care for a great ship and are interested in sailing – the knowledge is passed on by the older generation and the former seamen to the younger and more inexperienced people (although they are quiet a few experienced young seamen).
Within the annual maintenance work in 2005, the crew made a wooden keel and mounted it to the ships body. Approximately 4000 kilo oak wood has been used to build the keel which gave the ship enormous stability at sailing to the wind.

In the winter of 2006 the work was carried on to the brass scuttles which were cleaned of old paintwork and polished to a brilliant shine.
Since the first of July 2006, the “Santa Barbara Anna” has been sailing under 14 sails and an additional square foresail with 110 square meters which enlarges the entire surface to 667 square meters.
The square foresail was sponsored by one of the volunteering captains, a retired pilot.
The summer berth of the “Santa Barbara Anna” is Pier no. 83 at the harbour of Rostock City.
In wintertime, she is located downstream of the “Warnow” next to the fishing harbor of Rostock.

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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
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S.V. Children's Friend PZ101
Picture © Laurence Hartwell

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