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Name: Albion

Certificate number: 1386

Status:

Registered

Function:

Fishing Vessel

Sub Functional Area:

Type:

Morecambe Bay Prawner

Location:

Conwy, Aberconwy and Colwyn, Wales

Current use:

Private: operating

  • Length Overall:

    12.20 metres (40.00 feet)

  • Gross Tonnage:

    13.00

  • Draught:

    1.83 metres (6.00 feet)

  • Maximum Breadth:

    3.66 metres (12.00 feet)
Albion - ALBION - under sail, stern view of the starboard quarter looking forward. Ref: Assoc Docs (3/albion.gif)

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History

ALBION is a Morecambe Bay prawner or Nobby, built in 1906 by Crossfield of Arnside, Liverpool. She fished out of New Brighton until 1940 under the ownership of John Wright.

She is carvel built of pitch pine planking on oak frames and has one timber mast rigged as a gaff cutter. The vessel was built with no engine and was first engined in 1925/6; she now has a Thornycroft 4 cylinder diesel engine. In the 1990s, her mast, bowsprit, running and standing rigging, sails, engine, cabin and her keel were all renewed.

These brief histories are compiled from details supplied by vessel owners and enthusiasts and from various reference works. National Historic Ships would be grateful for any corrections of facts or additional information for inclusion. Please contact ron.ellis@nationalhistoricships.org.uk

Subsequent developments

None notified, please let us know if you have any additional information.

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