Penzance Registered Luggers and MFVs

Orion – PZ.613 : 1916-1935Ex – Albania – PZ.613 : 1897-1916Hawa Dilli – PZ.613 : 1935-1962. In the Summer of 1916 the Newlyn lugger Albania was […]

Albania – PZ.613 : 1897-1916;Orion – PZ.613 : 1916-1935;Hawa Dilli – PZ.613 : 1935-1962.[Official No. 164791; 1935] The Albania, was one of the finest first class […]

Percy ~ 30.PZ ; 1878-1889Percy ~ PZ.30 ; 1889-1907 Built in 1878, the Mount’s Bay lugger Percy, was part of a significant expansion in the numbers […]

Percy ~ PZ.614 ; 1907-1916ex Annie Jane ~ PZ.614 ; 1897-1907Percy ~ WY.? ; 1916+ Percy was built by William Peake and his sons at Newlyn […]

Annie Jane ~ PZ.614 ; 1897-1907Percy ~ PZ.614 ; 1907-1916Percy ~ WY.? ; 1916+ The Annie Jane, one of the finest first class Mount’s Bay luggers […]

Nearly home when disaster struck – An account of the loss of the Lugger Jane ~ 26.PZ Re-worked a little more recently, this account was first published […]

Boy Fred~528.PZ; 1893-1903Boy Fred~PZ.528 ; 1903-31Israel Britain~PZ.528 ; 1931-42. Built at Porthleven in 1893, for Thomas Henry Williams, the Boy Fred was registered as a British […]

Renovelle ~PZ.107. Ex-Edgar ~ PZ.131; & PH.202. In the summer of 1931, after less than two years on the Plymouth register, the Edgar –  having been purchased […]

Edgar ~ PZ.131: 1902-1929.Later PH.202; and Renovelle ~ PZ.107. The Edgar was built at Mousehole by, William Williams, in 1902 – one of the last fishing […]