ANGUILLA LT67

 

John Stevenson Collection

Official No:  301511  Port and Year:   Lowestoft, 1959                                                             

Description: Steel side trawler; single screw, motor. 

Crew:  

Built: 1959, Cochrane & Sons, Selby.  (Yard no. 1434)

Tonnage: 228  grt  82 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 105 / 23.9 / 11.5

Engine: 4 single acting 6 Cyl. 403 nhp. Ruston & Hornsby.

Owners:

 

Jan 1959: Clan Steam Fishing Co. (Grimsby), Lowestoft

Manager: G. D. Claridge

 

1972: Claridge Trawlers, Lowestoft

 

1987: Southard Trawlers, Docks, Milford.

 

Landed at Milford:  1987 - 1991

Skippers:

Notes: 

1976: Converted to stand-by safety vessel for off-shore installations.

1986: Reconverted back to side trawler.

Aug 1992: Broken up at Pembroke Dock.

 Accidents and Incidents

From either the West Wales Guardian or the Fishing News of Friday 28th November 1986:

 

    Milford co-op buys two ships

    The Milford Haven, Wales, fishing industry has received a boost with the arrival of two ex-Lowestoft side trawlers at the port and another is due to join the fleet shortly.

    The Milford Fishing Co-op run companies Norrard and Southard have bought two trawlers from Colne Shipping of Lowestoft and negotiations for a third vessel are under way.

    The 116ft. trawlers Antigua and Anguilla, which have been used in the oil industry, will now return to fishing at Milford.

    The trawlers will fish the Irish Sea and North Channel for a variety of species and will land to local merchants.  Skippers for the two boats have yet to be decided.

    ..............

    Sources at the port say that, if it wasn't for the co-op, there would be no future for the fishing industry and the port would be used for transit only.  Even Milford's one beamer, Semper Allegro, often lands into Brixham rather than Milford.

 

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From either the Fishing News or the Western Telegraph & Cymric Times of Wednesday 23rd May 1990:

 

    Milford Haven's resident companies, Norrard and Southard Trawlers, report fair fishing for their fleet of sidewinders over the past 12 months.

    At present they are fishing for cod in Area VIIa but last month three ships boosted their earnings with hauls of bass. Bryher, Kinellan and Anguilla took the fish mainly off Trevose Head and prices peaked on Milford market between £7 a pound and £5.30 a pound.

    Most of the fish went to Ashley's fish merchants in Milford who sold them to restaurants and hotels.

    Norrard and Southard trawlers are now trying to make up for lost fishing time because of the bad weather this winter.

 

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From the Fishing News of Friday 15th March 1991:

 

Lay-up looms for Milford company

    The issuing of redundancy notices to 30 shore based workers at Milford Haven has raised fears that the port's oldest firm, Norrard and Southard Trawlers, will soon lay up its seven aging trawlers.

    Ways are being sought out [sic] of financial difficulties facing the firm, which has been hit by shrinking quotas and soaring costs. But the problems of the trawler firm are seen as 'the tip of the iceberg' at the troubled Welsh port.

    ..................

    The Milford Haven company is the remains of a once powerful fleet that made the Welsh harbour a top landing port 30 years ago.

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    Meantime it appears inevitable that Norrard's seven vessels — Norrard Star, Bryher, Antigua, Anguilla, Kinellan, Gilmar and Dawn Spray — will be laid up until a solution to the present crisis is found.

 

[In May 1991, only the Kinellan and Gilmar were still fishing; the other vessels were laid up.]

 

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From the Pembrokeshire Telegraph & Cymric Times of Wednesday 18th March 1992:

 

Trawler fleet is sold to Ireland

BY JIM SMITH

    Milford Haven's fleet of seven trawlers has been sold to Ireland and will leave the port shortly,

    Even though the administrative receivers, Cork Gully — representing the creditors of the previous owning companies — refused to make any comments on the sale of the trawlers it is known they will shortly go to both Northern and Southern Ireland.

    This follows the recent announcement by the government that decommissioning grants for the vessels will now be considered.

    The trawlers include the Gilmar, which has been leased to the Milford Haven Port Authority and has been successful since returning to sea with its local crew.  They have now been laid off.

    The Gilmar, Kinellan, Dawn Spray, Norrard Star, Bryher, Antigua and Anguilla, were stopped from fishing last summer when the owning companies went into liquidation.

    All the vessels have since been for sale and it was only the Gilmar which went back to sea — earning an estimated £1,000 a day.

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    Port Authority manager, Mr. Mike Hyslop, said they were now hoping to encourage the new owners to operate the trawlers from Milford Docks and to, hopefully, employ local crews.

 

 

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