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

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 had her mainmast and forefoot replaced in the early 2020s.

Update, March 2026: Under new ownership. The new owner plans to complete various works aboard and relaunch her. 

Sources

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

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