[lmem82]

i have the original brass ships compass from this boat and an accompanying picture of her as the sultan venturer

Hi reference MFV 175....can only give you my brief experience on the vessel. Sometime between Feb 1980 and Oct 80 i was serving at HMS Sultan. A group of 6 of us traveled to Greenock, Scotland and boarded this vessel to run it down the west coast to bring her to portsmouth..6 knots and 10 days i seem to remember. Greenokc, Brodick, Port Stewart, Port st Mary (IOM), Holyhead, Aberdovey, padstow, newlyn, salcombe bay, poole then onto portsmouth Gosport and i,m afraid that is the last I saw her...handled well, remember pumping fuel into the gardner diesel engine, and bless her, laying on her side in the out tide padstow harbour with beads of paint running through what was our living area where we had not put out the stabilizer wood stays correctly. The Lt also answered a mayday call, which kind of amazed us...good luck with her...regards...pete
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[lmem82]

mfv 175

Hi reference MFV 175....can only give you my brief experience on the vessel. Sometime between Feb 1980 and Oct 80 i was serving at HMS Sultan. A group of 6 of us traveled to Greenock, Scotland and boarded this vessel to run it down the west coast to bring her to portsmouth..6 knots and 10 days i seem to remember. Greenokc, Brodick, Port Stewart, Port st Mary (IOM), Holyhead, Aberdovey, padstow, newlyn, salcombe bay, poole then onto portsmouth Gosport and i,m afraid that is the last I saw her...handled well, remember pumping fuel into the gardner diesel engine, and bless her, laying on her side in the out tide padstow harbour with beads of paint running through what was our living area where we had not put out the stabilizer wood stays correctly. The Lt also answered a mayday call, which kind of amazed us...good luck with her...regards...pete

 

[fybs]

My father bought MFV 195 from the RN in about 1964 for £500. 60ft with Lister Blackstone Diesel weighed 5 tons and did 520rpm. Compressed air start. sailed it as Borderer from Kirkwall to Scarborough on various holidays. Based in South Queensferry. Sold circa 1971 to the Orkney Sea cadets as Hamnavoe. Sold on and last seen in Anstruther. I also knew Pandora an 80ft MFV that operated out of Leith with Sea cadets.

The MFV 195 was rammed and sunk by the Spanish fishing vessel Villamanin while at anchor in the anchor zone of the spanish harbor La Coruna. I think it was somewhere around 1987.

She is marked as wreck at 25 meters depth and is used for the local diving school for wreck diving.

I still have some photos of her somewhere while she was on her voyage from Falmouth to La Coruna which took us 2 days and 1 Night across the Biscay. She was supposed to leave on the following morning to Lisbon and from there to the canary islands when she got rammed at a clear night with her anchor light on and a bright deck light illuminating her brightly.

A sad memory and a great historical loss.

 

[Bob S]

MFV617 is at Ramsgate and has been rebuilt as STARBUCK. Saw her there on the 13th June 2018.

https://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/site-search?search_api_fulltext=starbuck

 

[Lolly Dawn]

The old Man

Does anyone know who owns MFV 96 now, i found some photo's of her on the internet , 1 in the solent when i ran her for the sea cadet corps and the other what looks like a recent photo with new owners.

When did you run her for the Sea cadet Corp

 

[Snoopy2]

Hi All,
I'm in the process of acquiring MFV 775, currently named Watercourse. She was Ordered in 1944 and launched October '45 in Poole. I found her on her side in a creek in Cornwall and have since refloated and secured her upright. There is significant work to be done including nearly all topside planking to be replaced! But she's a lovely looking vessel and worth saving in my eyes. I wonder whether anyone on here has more information about her? A previous owner perhaps or someone that knows where to find service records? TIA,
Kind Regards,
Felix

 

[Lolly Dawn]

I was the last CO of the 96 her from the time she was handed over to the Sea Cadets at the Kyle of Lochalsh until she was removed from service ,she normaly spent the winter in canary wharf and the summer based in Portsmouth and undertook trips to Holland once a year, the last time i saw her she was moored just above the Itchen Bridge at Southampton to be sold off sometime in the 90.s i do have plenty of photo's but i will need to dig them out from the loft .

Hi I went to Holland with her my skipper was piggot and our engineer was blue not sure what unit they were. But would love to know what they are up to now possiblely meet up with them again.

 

[Lolly Dawn]

I was the last CO of the 96 her from the time she was handed over to the Sea Cadets at the Kyle of Lochalsh until she was removed from service ,she normaly spent the winter in canary wharf and the summer based in Portsmouth and undertook trips to Holland once a year, the last time i saw her she was moored just above the Itchen Bridge at Southampton to be sold off sometime in the 90.s i do have plenty of photo's but i will need to dig them out from the loft .

The old Man

Does anyone know who owns MFV 96 now, i found some photo's of her on the internet , 1 in the solent when i ran her for the sea cadet corps and the other what looks like a recent photo with new owners.

Did you ever take her to Holland in the early 80's

 

[Lonegunman]

Found this when digging though a few photo's, not sure what year it was but it was for the fleet review in Holland.

 

[ComptonJones]

My father bought MFV 195 from the RN in about 1964 for £500. 60ft with Lister Blackstone Diesel weighed 5 tons and did 520rpm. Compressed air start. sailed it as Borderer from Kirkwall to Scarborough on various holidays. Based in South Queensferry. Sold circa 1971 to the Orkney Sea cadets as Hamnavoe. Sold on and last seen in Anstruther. I also knew Pandora an 80ft MFV that operated out of Leith with Sea cadets.

My father bought MFV 195 from the RN in about 1964 for £500. 60ft with Lister Blackstone Diesel weighed 5 tons and did 520rpm. Compressed air start. sailed it as Borderer from Kirkwall to Scarborough on various holidays. Based in South Queensferry. Sold circa 1971 to the Orkney Sea cadets as Hamnavoe. Sold on and last seen in Anstruther. I also knew Pandora an 80ft MFV that operated out of Leith with Sea cadets.

I bought Hamnavoe in 1980 in Anstruther and did fishing and diving charters around the Firth of Forth for a few years. Eventually sold to a bunch of new age travellers who sailed off into the sunset. I still have the brass clock and barometer on the wall

 

[My b]

MFVs

By 1983 only 12 MFVs remined in service these were;
Stores ships
MFV 7, 15, 96, 256, 740, 911
Diving ships
MFV 119, 642, 775
Tenders
MFV 140, 175, 816
If you look in the gallery I have posted a picture of MFV119 which was laid up in 1986 and was sold to Pounds in 1987 who removed her super structure and sold the hull as a mooring hulk at Cowes in 1988.

What happened to the mfv Apollo 609. My father with some help from my self and 3 younger brothers practicaly rebuilt her and keprlt her in fine fetal, my tather was the Area boats officer in yorkshire.

 

[Mad Landsman]

Hello My b and welcome aboard.
As you can see this is quite an old thread. Stevo last signed on over two years ago but maybe another member could help.

 

[Typhoon]

The MFV 195 was rammed and sunk by the Spanish fishing vessel Villamanin while at anchor in the anchor zone of the spanish harbor La Coruna. I think it was somewhere around 1987.

She is marked as wreck at 25 meters depth and is used for the local diving school for wreck diving.

I still have some photos of her somewhere while she was on her voyage from Falmouth to La Coruna which took us 2 days and 1 Night across the Biscay. She was supposed to leave on the following morning to Lisbon and from there to the canary islands when she got rammed at a clear night with her anchor light on and a bright deck light illuminating her brightly.

A sad memory and a great historical loss.

It was the Stromness Academy Navigation school that had the Hamnavoe, the Sea Cadets had a launch PLD 4309.

My father bought MFV 195 from the RN in about 1964 for £500. 60ft with Lister Blackstone Diesel weighed 5 tons and did 520rpm. Compressed air start. sailed it as Borderer from Kirkwall to Scarborough on various holidays. Based in South Queensferry. Sold circa 1971 to the Orkney Sea cadets as Hamnavoe. Sold on and last seen in Anstruther. I also knew Pandora an 80ft MFV that operated out of Leith with Sea cadets.

I don‘t know if this will do any good but I was trying to revive some memories of when I was a member of the sea cadets late fifties and used to go down to leith docks at the weekend and I saw the Pandora.I have hunted everywhere but yours is the only reference I have come across anyhow I just wondered if you knew anymore? Thanks more in hope than expectation Ben