Penzance Registered Luggers and MFVs

Maunds, Pads, Hogsheads and Hundreds I first wrote this guide for the South West Maritime History Society, back in 1995. However, the it seemed right to […]

Auld-Lang-Syne – PZ.486 : 1891-1928. Built at Porthleven in 1891, by an unidentified builder (most likely by Kitto or Bowden), the Auld-Lang-Syne was a first class […]

Swan 132.PZ : >1869-1887; Swan PZ.132: 1887-1895 The Swan was one of the immense fleet of Mount’s Bay luggers in existence before the introduction of the […]

Ada 4.PZ  pre 1869-1885; Ada PZ.28: 1885-1897. The Ada was a working sea fishing boat prior to the Sea Fisheries Act of 1868, and would then […]

Penzance is the most westerly registration port for fishing boats, covering an area from roughly the Lizard around to Cape Cornwall. Luggers and latterly motor fishing […]

The surviving Cornish Shipping Registers and Sea Fishing Boat Registers held by Cornwall Record Office, together with associated Crew Agreements, are held in class MSR – […]

The following information has been copied from the SEA FISHERIES MANUAL 1903, H.M.S.O., London, 1903 – the ‘Manual for the guidance of Officers employed in carrying […]

Breadwinner~PZ.121 : 1925-26 / Biddy~PZ.121 : 1926-1989 [+?] Built in 1925, for Edward James Williams, of Cliff House, Porthleven, and Thomas Kitchen Williams, of Peverell Rd., Porthleven, […]

Agatha – 218.PZ : 1878-1903; Agatha – PZ.218 : 1903-1945; With a hull length of 46.5 feet, the Agatha was a mackerel driver, one of the larger […]