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Name: MORNING STAR
Type: Fishing Boat - Creeler
Launched:
Completed: 1968
Builder: Robsons Boat Builders Ltd
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 11grt, 38.0ft LOA
Engines: Oil engine
Engines by: RA Lister & Co, Dursley
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: A12084
History:
1968 Buchan & Zander Strachan, Fraserburgh
by 1989 Kenneth Watson Redpath, Kirkcaldy; renamed FORTH RANGER
1999 Unknown owner, Ireland
No later history known
Comments: 1968: Allocated fishing registration number FR20 at Fraserburgh
197x: May have been renamed HEATHER JOY
by 1989: Allocated fishing registration number KY20 at Kirkcaldy
1999: Allocated fishing registration number W222 at Waterford
2002: Fishing registration cancelled
2007: Allocated fishing registration number W222 at Waterford
2008: Allocated fishing registration number W222P at Waterford
Still in use as whelk potter


Above photo as FORTH RANGER is courtesy of Trawler Photos

Above photo as FORTH RANGER is copyright of Willie Ryan