The Bosun's Watch

Technical

Official Number: 114302
Launched: 1903
Gross Tonnage: 40
Net Tonnage: 16
Length: 64.0 ft
Breadth: 18.1 ft
Draught: 8.21 feet
Built: Liver & Wilding, Fleetwood
Owner: Mary Ellen Leadbetter, Fleetwood and Others

History

1903: Completed by Liver & Wilding Ltd, Fleetwood for John Liver, ‘Brookfield’, Fairhaven, Lytham (64 shares) as RELIANCE at a cost of £1200.
23.11.1903: Registered at Fleetwood (FD210). John David Gibson, 88 York Terrace, Fleetwood designated ship’s husband.
24.11.1903: Sixteen shares sold to John David Gibson, Fleetwood, designated managing owner.
27.11.1903: Eight shares sold to Walter Whittaker, Hill Top, Cheadle Hulme.
7.12.1903: Eight shares each sold to Agnes Liver, Frank John Liver and Herbert James Liver all of ‘Brookfield’, Fairhaven, Lytham.
9.12.1903: Eight shares sold to Arthur Thomas Liver, 158 Dock St, Fleetwood.
28.5.1904: Re-measured at Liverpool and tonnage altered to 20.10 net.
11.3.1907: Arthur Thomas Liver designated managing owner.
1917(?) : Arthur T. Liver, 4. Clarendon Road, St. Annes-on-the-Sea (managing owner).
post1924: Sold to Mary Ellen Leadbetter, Fleetwood and Others.
1925: Converted to auxiliary motor
24.11.1925: Fleetwood registry closed. Registered at Whitehaven (WA25).
1927: Not in MNL.
1947: Sold to Mr & Mrs Davison for conversion to a yacht.
6.1949: On passage to Cuba. In gale force winds driven ashore at Cave Hole, Portland. Mr Davidson lost his life. Total loss.

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Reliance FD210
Picture from unknown source

Technical

Official Number: 89708
Launched: 1893
Rig: Dandy
Gross Tonnage: 72
Net tonnage: 56
Length: 67.2 ft
Breadth: 18.8 ft
Draught: 9.0 ft
Built: Peel IoM
Owner: B. Rostron, Fleetwood

History

1893: Completed by ??, Peel, IoM, for B. Rostron, Fleetwood as RED ROSE. 10.1.1893: Registered at Fleetwood (FD99).
6.11.1896: Sold to Richard Ashcroft, 54 North Albert St, Fleetwood & Others (Richard Ashcroft, managing owner).
23.10.1897: Registered at Fleetwood (FD99).
11.5.1913: Re-measured and tonnage altered to 57.43gross 24.42net.
4.6.1913: New Fishing Certificate issued.
1915: Same.
1917: Sold to Ernest Tomlinson, London Street, Fleetwood (Ernest Taylor, Knowsley Villas, Victoria Road, Thornton-le-Fylde, manager).
26.5.1920: Sold to George Frank Dunston, 36 Avondale Road, Southport. 13.9.1920: Sold to Herbert Pritchard, 88 Gidlow Road South, Stanley, Liverpool. 1921: Sold to Henry George Prior, 19 Bookham Road, Lowestoft.
5.2.1921: Fleetwood registry closed. Transferred to Lowestoft.

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Picture courtesy of Fred Bettess

FD 111, Harriet, is the only surviving example of the sailing smacks that fished from Fleetwood. Converted to motor power, she survived over 100 years before being abandoned in the Duddon Estuary. The first picture shows her as originally built and the other two after she had been converted to motor and fitted with gallows for a trawl.

Technical

Official number: 89709
Launched: 1893
Gross Tonnage: 42
Net Tonnage: 21
Rig: Ketch
Length: 60.1 ft
Breadth: 16.8 ft
Draught: 9.0 ft
Built: Singleton Brothers, Fleetwood
Owner: Henry Leadbetter, 44 Kent St, Fleetwood (Richard Leadbetter, Manager)

History

1893: Completed by Singleton Brothers, Fleetwood for Henry Leadbetter, 44 Kent St, Fleetwood (Richard Leadbetter, manager) as HARRIET.
2.10.1893: Registered at Fleetwood (FD111).
5.12.1905: Sold to ??
Pre1924: Sold to Mark Leadbetter, 36 Belmont Road, Fleetwood (managing owner).
1929: Same.
19.3.1930: Re-registered at Fleetwood as auxiliary motor.
194?: Sold to George W. Fletcher, 22 Whinfield Ave, Fleetwood.
1978: Ceased fishing. Sold to Mrs Josephine Barner, Little Langdale, Cumbria. Converted and moored at Millom as a hostel.
2005(?): Sold to Fleetwood Museum for restoration.
2008: Behind Museum awaiting restoration.

Built as a sister smack to MARGARET
Last sailing trawler to operate from Fleetwood.

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Harriet FD111 outbound. Picture courtesy of E V Todd

Harriet FD111 outbound with Ida and William & John FD162. Picture courtesy of E V Todd

Sailing Trawler Harriet FD111

Sailing Trawler Harriet FD111

Sailing Trawler Harriet FD111

Technical

Official Number: 53277
Gross Tonnage: 51g
Net tonnage: 38
Length: 64.6 ft
Breadth: 17.4 ft
Draught: 9.5 ft
Rig: Dandy
Built: ??, Rye
Owner: George Miller, 33 Church St, Fleetwood

History

1865: Completed by ??, Rye as MILO.
March 21 1888: Registered at Fleetwood (FD19).
1908: In ownership of George Miller, 33 Church St, Fleetwood.
1915: Same.
1916: Sold for demolition.
February 19 1916: Fleetwood registry closed.

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Sailing Trawler Milo FD19
Picture courtesy of Fred Baker

Sailing Trawler Milo FD19

Technical

Official Number: 45350
Launched: 1866
Gross Tonnage: 35
Net Tonnage: 20
Length: 54.1 ft
Breadth: 16.1 ft
Draught: 8.5 ft
Rig: Jigger Smack
Built by:John Gibson, Fleetwood, 1866
Owner: J. Wright, Fleetwood

History

1866: Completed by John Gibson, Fleetwood for J. Wright, Fleetwood as WILLIAM and JOHN. Registered at Fleetwood (FD162).
1881: Census at Fleetwood – George Bird (27), b-Hoylake, master; David Herbert (28), b-Colchester,AB; Robert Green (41), b-Poulton-le-Fylde, AB; Philip Kay (29), b-Peel, AB; James Bird (15), b-Hoylake, cook.
21.10.1890: Sold to Richard Ashcroft, 9 Adelaide St, Fleetwood (managing owner).
26.9.1919: Sold to Jane Meadows, 1 Elm Street, Fleewood.
16.2.1921: Sold to John Henry Collis, 35 Carr Road, Fleetwood.
28.10.1928: Fleetwood registry closed. No longer fishing.

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William & John