Name Family's Pride

FAMILY'S PRIDE is a motor sailer Fifie Ketch, built in 1932 by J Stephen & Son at the MacDuff Boatyard in North East Scotland.  Originally named BLOOM, INS 217, she was built as fishing vessel and owned by John Wood, John Smith, Edward Meldrum, William Cormack and Jessie Campbell: Alexander Campbell changed the ownership to his wife Jessie Campbell in 1934. She was fished using Seine and Drift nets on the North East coast.  In 1946 Donald Colquhoun, an Army Officer from Loch Lomond, bought her for the Loch Lomond Fishing Company and the skipper changed from John Wood to James Innes.

In 1950 Joseph Napier Cargill, Walter Cargill and Joseph Napier Cargill Junior bought the boat in Elgin Market Green Auction and changed her name to FAMILY'S PRIDE after their previous vessel of the same name, which had been sunk by a U-boat in 1917 off Peterhead. She was moved to Arbroath and continued fishing. The engine was changed from Gardner 48HP to the current engine Gardner 6L3. It was during this time the vessel was the subject of a jig written by Lindsay Ross, a local composer.

In 1986, she was decommissioned as a fishing vessel, stripped and sold to Edward Stancliffe. Based in Broadford Skye he had her coded and modified for sail cruising and then taken to Malta to be used as a charter. After a short season she was sailed back to Skye. 

FAMILY'S PRIDE then became the centre of a community boat project operated by Dundee-based Caroline House Trust. She was loaned to the group for 3 years and arrived at Tayport on August 25 1996, having taken six days to sail from Skye via the Caledonian Canal. The intention was for youngsters throughout Fife and Tayside to be able to learn a variety of seagoing skills, as well as teamwork, on board the vessel. FAMILY'S PRIDE would be made available for charter on a commercial basis, with the primary goal of fundraising and sponsorship. Over 40 volunteers worked on her during this time.

In 2005, she was sold to Roderick and Valerie Monson and taken to Northern Ireland to be used as a private vessel, based out of Ringhaddy. On the 29th February 2016 she was sold to Charlotte Bosanquet and Stephen Morrissey and moved to Belfast Harbour then on to Rathlin Island where she is worked on.  Charlotte Bosanquet then bought her outright and she became a full time live aboard in Rathlin Harbour. FAMILY'S PRIDE was taken to Nobles of Girvan for extensive work, including a new coach house, having her planks under the waterline replaced, and her engine rewired.  She has been in films and on the small screen as well as the background for the Northen Irish BBC weather reporting, having a role in Ben Fogle's Lives in the Wild series, and BBC's sitcom The Cleaner. 

Update, August 2026: Vessel for sale.