Registration number 768
Status Registered
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Provider - starboard side
PROVIDER - under sail at Inverrary. Port bow looking aft.
Provider - starboard view, on Loch Sween in Argyll
Provider - work in progress
Provider - undergoing conversion to a schooner yacht
Provider - under sail

Details

Function Fishing Vessel
Subfunction Trawler
Location Cairnbaan
Vessel type Morecambe Bay Prawner
Current use Private use
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Stoba, William, Fleetwood
Built in 1904
Rig Schooner
Number of decks 1
Number of masts 2
Propulsion Sail
Number of engines 1
Primary engine type Inboard
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
10.30 feet (1.83m)
Depth
6.00 feet (3.96m)
Length: Overall
45.97 feet (14.02m)

History

Built in 1904 by William Stoba of Fleetwood, PROVIDER is a schooner rigged Morecambe Bay prawn boat. Her hull is carvel built, with an oak keel and frames, pitch pine planking below the waterline and larch above. She has a Volvo diesel inboard engine, model MD21. She operated as a fishing boat until 1970, when she was converted to a schooner by a naval architect and is presently based at Cairbaan, Argyll and Bute.

She recently had her mainmast and forefoot replaced.

Update, October 2023: Vessel for sale.

Sources

Lockett, Alan, North Western Sail, Countryside Publications Ltd, 1978
Old Gaffer's Association Member's Handbook and Boat Archive, 1993

Own this vessel?

If you are the owner of this vessel and would like to provide more details or updated information, please contact info@nationalhistoricships.org.uk

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