Additional information courtesy of Mike Thompson and Geoff Davidson Technical Official Number: 167050 Yard Number: 1058 Completed: 1939 Gross Tonnage: 520.32 Net Tonnage: 190.57 Length: 175.9 ft Breadth: 28.6 ft Depth: 15.0 ft Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough Engine: 925ihp T.3-cyl by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough Boiler: Richardson, Westgarth & Co […]
In Marr (Fleetwood) ownership. Did not fish from the port. Additional material courtesy of Mike Thompson Technical Official Number: 185151 Yard Number: 880 Completed: 1953 Gross Tonnage: 790 Net Tonnage: 286 Length: 190.2 ft Breadth: 32.1 ft Depth: 15.7 ft Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull Fitted for burning oil […]
Snippets, from unknown news sources, provided by Les Howard Fleetwood Trawler for Canada Due to leave this week on a 2,500 mile trip across the North Atlantic to Nova Scotia is the 328 ton trawler Boston Neptune. She has been sold by the Boston Deep Sea Fisheries Ltd, to their subsidiary firm Arcadia Fisheries Ltd […]
Fleetwood is well known, primarily, as a fishing port. It was not, however, always that way. Indeed, in the mind of the town’s creator, Peter Hesketh Fleetwood, it was envisaged as a resort after the style of St. Leonard’s on Sea, to cater for the needs of the residents of the Lancashire towns. Peter Hesketh […]