Museum ship “Jacinta” at Fletwood, 9th June 2009
Owner: Jacinta Charitable Trust
Port of registry: Fleetwood
Registration no.: FD 159
Gross tons: 599 or 615 (sources differ)
Length overall: 43.48 m
Builder: Clelands Shipbuilders Ltd., Wallsend (a subsidiary of Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson)
Completed 1972 as distant-water stern trawler “Jacinta” for J. Marr & Sons Ltd, Fleetwood
Sold to the Trust 1995 for £1. Re-engined in order to be able to attend heritage festivals & the like. , berthed at Fleetwood.
In early 2019 the Trustees decided that it was no longer seaworthy and that continuing to maintaine her would be too expensive. Attempts to find some way to preserve her proved fruitless and at the beginning of 2020 it was finally decided that she should be scrapped on site.
See also photos http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=3191395 , http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=3191396 & http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=3191397