mfv Crusader FD71 | Fleetwood Motor Trawlers

Technical

Official Number: 366605
RSS Number: A16344.
Gross Tonnage: 44
Net Tonnage: 20
Length (loa) 17.29 m
Length: 16.93 m
Breadth: 5.52 m
Depth: 2.31 m
Non-Sector. VCU (Vessel Capacity Unit) – 172.39
Engine: 8-cyl 230bhp/171kW Gardner 8L3B oil engine by L. Gardner & Sons Ltd, Patricroft, Manchester

History

1975: Ordered by Browse Brothers, Paignton.
1976: Completed by J. Hinks & Son Ltd, Appledore (Yd.No.?) for Maurice Browse, Paignton & others as CRUSADER. Registered at Dartmouth (DH71). Based Kingswear, Devon and working the mid-Channel grounds (Sk. Mike Dormon).
07.1978: Sold to Stanley V. Browse, Brixham & others. Registered at Dartmouth as CRUSADER OF KINGSWEAR (DH71).
1990s: Became nomadic, fishing out of various ports before being based at Whitehaven and Girvan exploiting the Irish Sea whelk grounds.
By 1993: Sold to Kenneth Browse, Paignton & others.
2010: Laid up at Girvan and offered for sale.
2012: Sold to B & M Fishing LLP, Fleetwood (Anne Mary Bynam, Andrew Robert Bynam & AM Seafoods Ltd). Registered at Fleetwood as CRUSADER (FD71). Continued operating as a whelker.
03.2016: Sold to Timothy Bowman-Davies, Nyeland. Registered at Milford as CRUSADER (M71). Continues to operate out of Milford as a whelker.
2017: Sold to Richard Wright, for conversion to a private vessel.
22.06.2018: Sank alongside at Scarborough. Raised and being refurbished for private use, possibly as an angling boat on the Humber.

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mfv Crusader FD71
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M.T. Crusader DH71

M.T. Crusader of Kingswear DH71

M.T. Crusader FD71

mfv Crusader FD71
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Picture courtesy of Mick Bayes

mfv Crusader M71
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mfv Crusader
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Changelog
06/06/2017: Page published.
11/12/2018: Updated information and added images.
16/12/2018: Added an image.
07/01/2019: Added image and removed FMHT watermark.
10/03/2024: Added an image.