Penzance Registered Luggers and MFVs

A selection of accounts of Penzance registered luggers and motor fishing vessels

27 August 2019

PZ.132 Swan

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 […]
27 August 2019

Pz.28 Ada

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 […]
21 July 2019

Penzance Sea-fishing Boats

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 […]
21 July 2019

The Penzance Sea Fishing Boat Registers

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 – […]
21 July 2019

The lettering and numbering of fishing boats

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 […]
19 July 2019

PZ.121 Breadwinner/Biddy

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, […]
4 July 2019

PZ.218 Agatha

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 […]
20 June 2019

PZ.117 Emblem

The patriotic name Emblem was one of the more popular names for Mount’s Bay fishing boats, there being at least six Bay fishing boats with this […]