An account of the fishing boats from the river Wye to Poole Harbour
NOTE
Not all craft fit into handy classification groups and thus some boats have been omitted. Fishing boats especially, by the very nature of their work, move about the coast whilst others, again by the very nature of their method of working are confined to one specific part of the water in which they work. This can cause confusion!
This is a very brief outline of these craft and is not meant as a concise record of the West Country fishing vessels. At the end of each account the sources are referenced by the numbers below.
SOURCES
1. Smylie, M, Working the Welsh Coast, Stroud, 2005
2. Smylie, M, Traditional Fishing Boats of Britain & Ireland, Shrewsbury, 1999
3. March, Edgar, Inshore Craft of Britain, Newton Abbot, 1970
4. Greenhill, Basil (ed), The Chatham Dictionary of Inshore Craft, London, 1997
5. McKee, Eric, Working Boats of Britain, London, 1983
6. Simper, Robert, Beach Boats of Britain, Woodbridge, 1984
7. Smylie, M, Voices from the Shoreline, Cheltenham, 2021
8. Smylie, M, Boats of the Somerset Levels, Stroud, 2012
9. Smylie, M, Fishing Boats of Cornwall, Stroud, 2009
10. Waters, B, The Bristol Channel, London, 1955
11. Gilman, J, Exmoor’s Maritime Heritage, Tiverton, 1999
12. Northway, A. ‘The Devon Fishing Industry in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’ in M. Duffy et al (editors), The New Maritime History of Devon, volume II, London, 1994
13. Clowes, G.S. Laird, British Fishing-Boats and Coastal Craft, London, 1937
14. Smylie, M, ‘The Last of the Line – Clovelly Herring Boats and Vic Boyle’ in MSW No 22, 2009
15. Smylie, M, ‘The 2008 picarooner Little Lily’ in MSW No 22, 2009
16. Smylie, M, Fishing Around the Bristol Channel, Stroud, 2011
17. Boyle, V.C, & Payne, D, Devon Harbours, London, 1952
18. Provis, G, The Fishermen of Port Isaac, Launceston, 2009
19. Oliver, A.S, Boats & Boatbuilding in West Cornwall, Truro, 1971
20. Noall, C, Cornish Seines and Seiners, Truro, 1972
21. Finch, R, Sailing Craft of the British Isles, London, 1976
22. Toms, C, The Seiners and the Knocker Up, 1994