Fleetwood Boat Graveyard, Lancashire

[@tonypaddler]

Beautiful video, with some of the earlier footage being quite eerie, in a nice way! Thanks 🙂👍

[@CaptTony]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@graham907]

Great video Tony ,thank you.

[@CaptTony]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for your kind comment. Cheers, Tony

[@inbetween-days]

Hi Tony this was really interesting and thought provoking. There was a very eerie feel about thise boats. Great footage. Thank you for sharing this with us. Best wishes Dave and Dawn 👍

[@CaptTony]

Thank you again for your comment. I agree, the whole issue of the fishing boats being scrapped was connected with the Cod War, but also about fishing quotas, and the UK entry into the Common Market. Lots to read online! Cheers, Tony

[@johnnystrek5403]

Smooth flying. I found the ship graveyards very interesting during my uk trip.

[@CaptTony]

Glad that you enjoyed my video. Thanks for the comment.

[@davidtaylor8458]

Nice video thank you for sharing. Worked on deep water trawlers out of Fleetwood in the nineteen sixties. Hard work but good times!

[@CaptTony]

Did you get up there off Iceland during the Cod Wars? I was there aboard a RN frigate trying to look after you guys! Atrocious weather, which was bad enough in a 2400 Ton warship, but must have been hell aboard a trawler!

[@davidtaylor8458]

@@CaptTony No was not up there during the Cod Wars I came off the trawlers before it all kicked off! The weather was not always bad but of course we had to work mostly in the dark with horizontal rain and snow in the winter! The RN did the best they could it was not easy against the fast Icelandic gun boats

[@CaptTony]

Unfortunately our warships weren't built to be rammed, which is what happened a few times. Very lucky we weren't sunk!

[@davidtaylor8458]

I agree with you on that, the trawlers had strong hulls but there was nothing they could do if the Icelandic boat came round the stern and cut the trawl ropes. The recoil could easily kill someone on deck. I was lucky I had moved on!

[@johnbowkett80]

The "Riverdance" went aground there too . I was working near Kirkham and I watched them cut it up . 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@Daisy-Routes]

Very cool footage Tony!

[@CaptTony]

Thanks for the kind comment. Cheers, Tony

[@sim2g]

Your video is very inspiring. I feel like those ship wrecks have a story or two to tell. Like no. 34 and from now on I'm subsribed to you to see more about interesting stuff.

[@CaptTony]

Thanks for subscribing to my channel, and enjoy my hundreds of videos. Cheers, Tony

[@sim2g]

@@CaptTony I will, thank you! 🙋🏻‍♂️🙂

[@glyn829]

Very interesting Tony seems a shame those old boats left abandoned great film though 👌

[@CaptTony]

Yes, sad wasn't it?

[@jonandrews4493]

Always wondered why Fleetwood football club nickname was the Cod, now I understand!…good video.

[@CaptTony]

I didn't even know that it was named Cod. Thanks for the comment.

[@jonandrews4493]

@@CaptTony You are welcome. yes, the club have x2 nicknames, The Fishermen, but more popular is The Cod Army. If I am honest I was unsure where Fleetwood was, I always thought it was inland and in the South-East, Sorry!. Looking at your video the area around Fleetwood is remarkably flat, and it appears, as you can see for a fair distance that Fleetwood is in an area fairly isolated, which is probably why i know little about the place, will have to visit when I am next back to the UK.

[@CaptTony]

Jon, if you're interested in that area of the UK, please subscribe to my channel, and you'll find a video of Blackpool, one of our old "bucket and spade" holiday resorts. If your interest is specifically in sunken wrecks, you'll also find a video shot over the Hoo Marina and ships' Graveyard on the River Medway in Kent. Thanks for the comments.

[@jonandrews4493]

@@CaptTony Hi Tony, Good Idea, I have subscribed, will take a look at your other vids. I am interested in anything coastal & Ships. I live on the coast in Taiwan now, originally from Bristol UK, Father was a boat builder.

[@CaptTony]

Interesting personal background. You'll find plenty coastal stuff on my channel, with more to come. You'll see the "Great Britain" and Clifton Suspension Bridge amongst my videos. I visited Taiwan a couple of times whilst still working - to Keelung to the National Taiwan Ocean University.

[@agostinobrienza9501]

Great and interesting flight.

[@CaptTony]

Many thanks!

[@allencoupland6791]

These boats where part of Fleetwood inshore fleet,dident go to Iceland,where part of eu decommissioning prefectley good boats scrapped.

[@CaptTony]

Thanks for the interesting piece of local history. Cheers, Tony

[@oilburner225]

So there's only 3 wrecks at Fleetwood? I would have though there would be more. Nonetheless an interesting video.

[@CaptTony]

I read that there's a lot more, but obviously not in the vicinity of my video. Anyway, if you watch my video again, you may spot another two wrecks, although they're more deeply sunk into the mud!

[@bazra19]

Those outhers go back even futher, I would say 1940 ish

[@bazra19]

Wrong the cod wars were much earlier, the First Cod War lasted from 1 September 1958 to 11 March 1961 I was there. What an absolute misleading scam. All you showed us was the same three vessels all the time, from different angles. Those wrecks are Probably much older than the 1970’s. so they could go back to the real cod wars late 50's early 60's.

[@CaptTony]

I'm not an ex trawlerman, so have to rely on what the Internet tells me. Maybe you should update Wikipedia with your greater knowledge! Anyway, the 2nd Cod War in the later 1970s wasn't too good either - I was there, the Chief Engineer (MEO) of a Royal Navy frigate that was nearly sunk in those icy waters off Iceland (we were holed not far above the waterline by an Icelandic Gunboat), whilst we were attempting to protect your warps! My video wasn't a scam - you might choose your words more carefully please!

[@CaptTony]

Perhaps you would rewrite the text to this video and post it here, and I'll be happy to amend my video with your text, which hopefully will provide an accurate description of the vessels in my video?

[@bazra19]

@CaptTony There might well have been a bit of a shindig in the 70's I don't know, But by then everything was more or less settled. War back in the first Cod War1950's there was a HUGE Icelandic registered trawler landing his catch in GY. Brothers were torn apart one at sea being threatened with being rammed while the other was on the docks unloading fish off of an Icelandic vessel it was hell. I also served deep sea with Port Line and was on the PORT CHALMERS as she went to the breakers yard. yes the same vessel that survived the Maltese Convoy during the war. That was a sad day.