J Marr fleetwood

Trawlers

[@andrewatkinson8922]

Great pictures .Dad sailed for Marrs as Chief.Last ship was the Criscilla.40 day trips to Newfoundland and St Johns a hard life but loved it.Grandad was a skipper and sole survivor of the lowdock and ended up doing 50 years at sea .

[@allanmckernan7608]

I was in the criscilla for four years what was your Grandads name

[@flyingfox7854]

Deckie Learner on the Maretta in the 1970’s laid off by Iceland’s 200 mile exclusion zone, sad days for the UK fishing industries ...... they’re moaning now in 2021 but it’s not a patch on what we went through back then.

[@stuarth43]

tears at my heartstrings, stirring music, did you see cuppla ships frame lines showing, that's the sea stretching the plate Many of the British fleet were not properly painted, rust from the inside would have scuppered the fleet anyways

[@robrus6077]

worked for J Marr in 1993, Northern Horizon then Fox

[@johnmcginley8988]

My dad saild in .most of them boats allan mcginley D