Category Archives: Sailing Trawlers

Sailing Trawlers

s.v. Maria FD73

Technical

Official Number: 67121
Completed: 1870
Gross Tonnage: 38g
Net Tonnage: 24
Length: 55.0 ft
Breadth: 15.3 ft
Depth: 8.2 ft
Rig: Jigger smack – trawling
Built: Wm. Huddart, Bransty, Whitehaven

History

1870: Completed by Wm. Huddart, Bransty, Whitehaven for John Johnson, Fleetwood & others as MARIA.
6.9.1871: Registered at Fleetwood (FD73).
1881: Census at Thornton le Fylde. Edward Wilkinson (38), Fleetwood, Master; Henry Whiteside (38), Fleetwood, Isaac Lloyd (24), Marshside, Thomas Smith (19), Fleetwood, ABs; Richard Wilkinson, Nadlow, Cook.
20.2.1905: Sold to James Johnson, 9 Wellington Terrace, Preston.
1907: Sold to Charles William Pater, 31 Quay St, Whitehaven (managing owner).
9.4.1907: Fleetwood registry closed. Registered at Whitehaven (1/1907).
20.8.1926: Driven ashore and broken up in situ.
1926: Whitehaven registry closed.

Changelog
22/02/2009: Page published.
24/12/2014: Information updated.
30/11/2018: Information updated.

s.v. Margaret Agnes FD10

Technical

Official Number: 27316
Completed: 1860
Net Tonnage: 23
Rig: Smack – trawling
Built: John Gibson, Fleetwood
Owner: H. Copeland & R. Parkinson, Poulton-le-Fylde

History

21.12.1860: Completed by John Gibson, Fleetwood (Yd.No.1) for H. Copeland & R. Parkinson, Poulton-le-Fylde as MARGARET AGNES.
1861: Registered at Fleetwood (FD10).
1.1.1870: Owned by William Burgess Johnson, Fleetwood.
1.1.1875: Owned by John Johnson, Bradford.
1.1.1880: Owned by John Johnson, Fleetwood.
22.10.1887: Sold to Richard & William Leadbetter, Fleetwood (William Leadbetter, 33 North Church St, Fleetwood, managing owner).
Pre 1891: Sold to John Johnson, Fleetwood.
14.6.1902: Fleetwood registry closed. Broken up.

Changelog
22/02/2009: Page published.
18/12/2014: Information updated.

s.v. Margaret FD208

Additional information courtesy of Henry Leadbetter.

Technical

Official Number: 114301
Completed: 1903
Gross Tonnage: 51
Net Tonnage: 22
Length: 64.8 ft
Breadth: 17.7 ft
Depth: 9.85 ft
Rig: Ketch/Auxiliary motor ketch – trawling
Built: John Singleton & Co, Fleetwood

History

1903: Built by John Singleton & Co, Fleetwood. 5.1903: Completed by Richard (‘Fish Dick’) Leadbetter, Wyre Dock, Fleetwood for William Leadbetter, 33 North Church Street, Fleetwood (20/64); Nanny Leadbetter, Fleetwood (2/64); Harriet Leadbetter, Fleetwood (4/64); Betty Wright, Fleetwood (8/64); William Coulburn, Fleetwood (2/64); John Coulburn. Fleetwood (2/64); Thomas Rigby, Fleetwood (8/64); George Butler Woods, Fleetwood (4/64) and Richard Leadbetter (16/64) (64 shares) as MARGARET.
29.5.1903: Registered at Fleetwood (FD208), William Leadbetter designated managing owner.
25.9.1903: Eight shares (W. Leadbetter) sold to Isaac Leadbetter, 40 St. Anne’s Road West, St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea and two shares (W. Leadbetter) sold to Edwin William Mann, 60 Claremont Terrace, Fleetwood.
30.1.1915: Fishing off Morecambe Bay (Sk. Leadbetter), picked up 23 survivors of steamer BEN CRUACHAN (3092grt/1903) on passage Scapa Flow – Liverpool, stopped by U.boat (U21) 15 miles NW of Morecambe Bay Light Vessel and scuttled by explosive charges in position 53.36N 03.51W. Landed at Fleetwood.
Pre 1924: Sold to William Leadbetter, 54 Sagar Terrace, Blakiston Street Fleetwood (managing owner).
1924: Converted to auxiliary motor at Skippool and fitted with a 4 stroke 4-cyl 56bhp oil engine by Gardner Engines Ltd, Patricroft, Manchester. Re-measured 56.87g 17.71 net.
10.10.1924: Registry closed and re-registered as auxiliary motor ketch. Owner William Leadbetter, 23 North Albert Street, Fleetwood (managing owner).
5.5.1939: Sold to John Wignall, 11 Walmsley Street, Fleetwood & others (John Wignall managing owner).
20.9.1941: Sold to William Winston Curwyn, Crawford Arms Hotel, Conway.
4.5.1944: Sold to James C. Screech, 10 Myrtle Street, Appledore.
27.6.1944: Sold to Hubert Jones, 30 The Grove, Uplands, Swansea.
10.12.1946: Sold to William Alfred & D. L. George, Swansea.
12/??/1949: Sold to James Robert Sheader, 20 Tennyson Terrace, Hartlepool. Fleetwood registry closed. Registered at Hartlepool (HL92).
1961: Suffered engine explosion and subsequently abandoned near old Lifeboat Station.
1991: Buried when new Boathouse constructed to house Atlantic 21.

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sv Margaret FD208

sv Margaret FD208

Changelog
22/02/2009: Page published. 5 revisions since then.
15/12/2014: Information updated.
02/07/2015: Updated information and added picture.
14/08/2017: Removed FMHT watermark.

s.v. Margaret FD81

Additional information courtesy of Christine Simm
Technical

Official Number: 67132
Completed: 1872
Gross Tonnage: 45
Net Tonnage: 25
Rig: Cutter sloop rigged – trawling
Built: ??, Plymouth

History

1872: Completed by ??, Plymouth as MARGARET
1972: Registered at Fleetwood (FD81).
1.1.1875: Owned by William Leech, Fleetwood.
1.1.1880: Owned by William Wignall, Fleetwood.
24.03.1880: For sail by private treaty 16 64th shares in the fishing smack MARGARET.
24.12.1886: Sold to Mrs Margaret Hudson, 49 Warren Street, Fleetwood.
1896: Sold to James Armour, Fleetwood.
1897: Fleetwood registry closed “Vessel sold to Danish subjects (Iceland)”.

Changelog
22/02/2009: Page published. 5 revisions since then.
15/12/2014: Information updated.
31/01/2024: Information updated.

s.v. M.A.G. FD69

Technical

Official Number: 78230
Completed: 1877
Net Tonnage: 54
Length: 63.0 ft
Breadth: 18.8 ft
Depth: 9.1 ft
Rig: Dandy
Built: Mills & Blake, Southtown, Gt Yarmouth

History

Dandy – trawling

1877: Completed by Mills & Blake, Southtown, Gt Yarmouth for G. R. King, Gt. Yarmouth as M.A.G. Registered at Yarmouth (YH721).
1.1.1880: Owned by George Gibbs, High Street, Gorleston.
1878: Sold to W. Burdett-Couts, Gt. Yarmouth.
1884: Transferred to North Sea Trawling Co Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth.
1886: Sold to F.S. Leleu, Gt. Yarmouth.
1888: Sold to Hewett & Co, Gorleston & London.
1891: Sold to Richard C. Ward, 12 Alfred Terrace, Fleetwood (managing owner).
2.9.1891: Registered at Fleetwood (FD69).
10.7.1903: Sold to George Evans, 14 Marmion Rd, Hoylake (managing owner), later at 1 Lake Road, Hoylake.
25.4.1911: Tonnage altered to 23.30net. New Fishing Certificate issued.
27.7.1917: Sold to Herbert Pritchard, 4 Thirlmere Roar, Everton, Liverpool.
12.2.1918: Sold to Alfred Coker Jnr, 20 Castle Street, Liverpool.
31.12.1919: Fleetwood fishing registry closed. No longer fishing. “ Vessel converted into a derrick barge for river use only”.
1924: Fleetwood shipping registry closed.

Changelog
21/02/2009: Page published.