Manx court imposes £20k fine and 12-month ban on Fleetwood boat The owner of the Fleetwood-based whelker Julia Ann PD 5 has been fined £20,000 for retaining undersized whelks in Manx waters. This follows a £35,000 fine for the skipper…
Lifeboats have sailed into the history books all along the Fylde coast of Lancashire. Above: The former Fleetwood Ann Letitia Russell on the slipway of the old seafront lifeboat house before being withdrawn from service in 1976. This boat has now…
For decades Fleetwood was one of the UK’s main fishing ports, headed only by the dominant Humberside duo of Grimsby and Hull. A diverse fleet of FD-registered vessels returned to Wyre Dock with continual supplies of whitefish. This enabled the…
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