Favourite was formerly a seine net fishing boat, built in 1947 by Walter Reekie at St Monance in Fife.
She started her working life at Castletown, Isle of Man, in the hands of Jackie Maddrell and his sons; she was then known as “Margaret Anna” and carried the number CT101. The stay on the island was [...]
The Mary Young is a typical salmon coble of the middle twentieth century.
She was built in the 1970s by Harrison’s of Amble for a fisherman working from Amble harbour. Her earlier name was Acclaim. It appears she was never registered on the fishing boat register as boats used for salmon fishing did not need to [...]
This was built during the early part of 2009 for the Customs House “Coat for a boat Project”. Picture shows the hull about half way through being paneled. The were 40 panels in the completed boat which was made in 4 sections so that she could go upstairs in the exhibition room. Once installed there she [...]
Shemaron was built as a herring ring netter in 1949 by Weatherhead of Cockenzie. At the time she was considered a large fishing vessel, having an overall length of 55.75 feet.
Her original identity was Wisteria BA64. Until the early 1960s she was a regular visitor to the North East when she worked out of Seahouses [...]
This Tyne foy boat Joan was probably built by the South Shields boatbuilders Mitchelson’s in the 1920s.
Foy boats were privately owned by foyboat men who plied the Tyne and contracted to provide services for ships on the river by assisting with mooring, transporting crew and supplies (especially to ships at anchor).
Joan was owned by the [...]
This vessel is a 16 foot salmon fishing boat that was donated to the Trust by Mrs Susan Mackiver, having been used by her late husband Robert for fishing off Whitburn beach, just south of South Shields.
Spring Tide was built, at Whitburn, by shipwrights Billy and Jimmy Ray. She is a typical small seagoing rowing [...]
The UK’s oldest working fishing boat (in the over 10m category) was taken out of commission in February 2009. She is the Sovereign. Members of the North East Maritime Trust have taken a keen interest in her over the last five years and have been able to save her now that former owner Keith Alexander [...]