The Albion built in 1906 at Crossfields of Arnside it is made of pitch pine and oak, The Albion fished out of Morcambe bay and Conway North Wales, she is a big and powerful boat, originally 40 foot but it hashad 6 foot taken off the stern in a major rebuild some years ago by Peter Marsden her owner/skipper, she has won both the Liverpool and Conwy nobby races, she is berthedin Conway Harbour.

Owned by A Martyn of West Kirby, Wirral.Amanda is kept on morrings at West Kirby, Amanda has a fibreglass mast but woodengaff, boom and bowsprit, her engine is a 4 cylinder Ford.

Built in 1912 by William Anderson's of Millom. She is a Gaff Rig Morecambe Bay Yacht, 53ft long including the 14ft Bow Sprit. Her draft is 5ft 6in and she weighs 12 tons. Her fishing number was BW111. She has won many races.

The Arthur Alexander is a 33ft vessel designed by Stobie and built by Armour's of Fleetwood in 1902, It fished out of most of the ports in Morecambe and was used as a fire boat during the war at the Liverpool docks, the Arthur Alexander was the subject of a Granada tv documentary as she had sunk in the mud on the River Wyre"Fleetwood" for three years and was successfully raised By Stan Hurley who sold her to Michael Griffiths who spent three years building her back in to good condition, she was a winner of the 1988 Liverpool Nobby Race and has sailed I.O.M. Scotland and Ireland. Owned by Dennis Wright.

Blue bird Built in 1906 by Crossfieds of Arnside (Cumbria) she fished out of Lytham and Morecambe Bay most of her life and was restored by Syd Mc Mullen over a long period of years, She is 34ft and a very fast boat.

Bonita (ex Helen) was built by Crossfields at Arnside in 1888. As she was built as a yacht she has a fiddle bow instead of the spoon bow that Crossfields gave to their working boats. She is believed to be the only surviving Crossfield boat with a fiddle bow. 34ft LOD her planking is tight seamed which is another Crossfield yacht feature. Originally cutter rigged Bonita was converted to a yawl in the early 20th century. She has been owned by the Beckett family since 1938 and is kept on the Swale.

The only Nobby built by the Limit Motor Boat Co Barrow in Furness Cumbria, The builders were John Ingram and Fred Rollinson, father of Alex Rollinson, aretired Liverpool river pilot. She was built originally for Jack Mount of Morecambeand launched in 1930, he had her only four years, before selling her to Bill Higginsof Heswell in 1934. Cachalot was handed down through the family until sold to Andy Williams in 1996. A seven year rebuild followed and she now proves to be a fast sailer.

Comrades, Another Crossfield of Arnside boat built in 1908, She fished in Morecambe Bay but ended up fishing in the Isle of Man, she is one of the smaller Nobbies at 26ft she has won the Liverpool Nobby race 3 times, under the ownership of our late, well loved and respected President Harry Bloomfield.

Built by Armours Fleetwood,she is 38ft, when she was a fishing boat her crew was just one man and a boy, she fished in the Liverpool Bay, she was restored in the 1980's by then owner Tommy Dalton and is now owned By Billy Thompson who has just finished restoring her again.

Recent history She was sailed for many years around the south west and believed to have been used at some stage for sail training in Plymouth prior to her being sold and ending up in Glasgow at the Galgael Trust where she had been sold as restoration project. Alas the trust did not get on with the work and I bought her last year July. She is currently undergoing a complete refit including new spar,sails and engine together with a whole host of structural repairs (too numerous to mention) ompletion will be as time and money allows but expected to be within the next 12 months(now jan 2010) Fishing history and builder unknown although construction suggests Crossfields LOA 32ft

Elizabeth was built by Crossfields in 1917, she is built of pitch pine on oak frames and has an internal cast iron keel, she is 33ft 7.5 inches long she was originally named 'Carla Rosa' and then 'Christine' she was fished in Mary Port by her owner Fred Gate up until 1994 and lay up in Mary Port harbour until her current owner Paul Cracknell of West Kirby, Wirral bought her and started repairs making her ready to sail over the next couple of years, she has had new deck planks, side planks and a new cabin, gaff boom and bowsprit, she now sails in West Kirby, she was renamed 'Elizabeth' after Mr Cracknells daughter.

Built in 1935 by Crossfields Conway for Deep sea Water Fishing at the Liverpool Bar, Emma fished in the Mersey Bay for 30 years, Was owned by Jack Spriggs and his son, now owned by M Griffiths.

Built in 1928 At Arnside she is 34ft long, she lay up at Maryport for many years after being hit by a trawler with the tide flowing in and out of her, Empress had fished for many years in Morecambe Bay, in 1987 Mike Griffiths and Dr Dick Calvert bought her and spent three years building her up she is a past winner of the Liverpool Nobby race. Now owned by S Jones ofHoylake, Wirral.

Enid was a working boat working out of Mostyn for many years, She has a Lister water cooled engine.

Ethel was built in 1937 by Crossfields Conway, she was one of the later Nobbies and was built with an engine, she is 30 ft long, 9ft 6 beam, Ethel was built for the Peters brothers of Parkgate and fished and shrimped for most of her life on the River Dee up until 1980, she was bought in 1986 by Don Griffiths and was completely restored over a period of 6 years and has been a regular entree in to the Nobby Races, she is now moored in Conway less that 200 yards from where she was originally built in 1937.

Fleetwood rose was built in 1942 at Crosfields of Barrow, she is owned by Mr Eddie Rawlinson ,the picture shows her undergoing restoration.

The George Pilkington, is owned by our president Roger Bucknall, she is the last known surviving Southport Nobby, The Southport nobbies tended to be 42 ft and over because of the exposed coast, she was fished normally by one man and a boy, This vessel was built by the Wright Brothers of Marshside in the open, she fished Southport, Hoylake and North Wales and she lay derelict for years in the Weir in Warrington, until Fred Turner bought her and carefully rebuilt her over 4 years.

Built at Crossfields of Arnside in 1936 she was launched on Novemer 26th and then sailed Runcorn where she fished for 30 years, she fished Morecambe Bay and Hoylake where she broke adrift in a gale and was severley damaged, she was rebuilt by Bob Sheredley in Birkenhead which took a period of three years, whe was then bought by Jim and Jayne Roddick who have entered her in to the Liverpool and Conway Races and she has raced to the Isle of Man and competed in the traditional boat festval in Brest, France wher she beat boats of a much bigger size.

34ft built in 1912 on Angleseys pier Ulverston,Cumbria by Dan Mc Lester who was the last boat builders yard apprentice at the famous schooner builders yard Whites and Barrow, she was built of all oak left over when Whites ship builders closed hence its name Hearts of Oak, she worked as a pilot boat for many years for Ulverston iron works she was then left to rot in a creek, she was rebuilt locally and during world war 2 "Barbara" as she was then known was used as a pilot boat, fishing boat and air sea rescue,during this time she was able to save the lives of several airmen who were forced toditch there aircraft in the Duddon estury. Barbara's name was reverted back to Hearts of Oakand went back to fishing Maryport in 1964. She is now owned by Mrs J Snell of Cumbria.

Was bought by Mike Griffiths Jnr,he had Jim Weir doing her up for a long time.

Helen 111 is 34ft the last Nobby built at Crossfields of Arnside in 1938 for the Stonall family of New Brighton, she was then sold to the Evans family of Heswall who fished her on the Dee, she then went to the Isle of Skye where she fished for years eventually coming back home to the Dee. Helen 111 is now owned by Graham Jones and is moored in Liverpool.

Jean, winner of the Liverpool Nobby Race 2006, Owned by A W Wright.

Built by Crossfields of Arnside in 1912 one of 6 small Nobbies built specially for the Barrow Pilots who used them for fishing in the weekday and racing at the weekends, a very fast boat, there are only two of the six built remaining, the other being Mimi, the Jaunita fished out of Barrow untilbought by Jim Wier who brought her to Merseyside. Jaunita is now owned by Tony Kearney.

28ft built in Arnside by Crossfields was used before the war as the knot end ferry to carry passengers accross the River Wyre, she fished Morcambe Bay and the Dee Estuary with Laddie Evans as skipper owner up until the late 1970s. Now owned by Kevin Grimes of Liverpool, who is undertaking the huge task of doing her up, we will be starting a diary following his progress.

42ft Lassie is another Crossfield of Conway in 1938 one of the last Nobbies built in the yard before the war broke out, built for Alan Kitchen who fished the Dee Esturay, she had an extra top plank fitted so she could fish the Liverpool Mersey bar, she then fished out of Fleetwood until 1993 and had been under rebuild until the 1990's moored in the Menia Straights by then owner boat builder Scott Metcalf, Since 2007 she has been owned and Skippered by Adrain Farey with co owners Denise Longley and Nick Perrin. She is now berthed at Porth Penrhyn dock, Bangor During the Winter of 2008/2009 a low coach roof has been fitted and the interior re-fitted in traditional style.

Laura, winner of the Liverpool Nobby Race 2007, Owned by C C Hantom, of Preston

Owned by R W Rayner of Poulton-le-Fylde, she is currently on the hard, waiting to get a bit of maintenance done, she is getting her cockpit widened, repairs to some deck patches, and her deck fittings are getting improoved, she is also getting some work done on the interior, most notably insulating.

Owned by M Adams of Liverpool, formally ownedby David Wilson, who bought her of Jim Wier and Joe Mitchell, it was in very badcondition when it was bought by Jim and Joe in Hoylake, she had her cast keel taken out and newkeel bolts fitted, and she had a false rounded stern fitted.

May was built by Crossfields of Hoylake, one of only three boats built at Hoylake and the only one remaining today, built in 1920 for the Dee Estuary for shrimping and fishing, she was called May after May Crossfield one of the boat builders family, she lay for years sunk in the Liverpool docks after being hit during the blitz during world war 2, she was bought by David Wilson and completely and professionally rebuilt in 1986-87, she is a past winner of the Liverpool Nobby Race and is now owned by Barry Sharrat, she is built of pitch pine and oak and is 32ft long.

Owned by Alan Hughes the present owner for over 25 years one of only two small Nobbies built for the Barrow pilots built by Crossfields of Arnside in 1912, she has had 1 and 1/2 foot sawn off the stern because of rot, she fished Morcambe Bar area all her working life for shrimps and fish, she was moored at Skipool Creek on the River Wyre, Fleetwood. Mimi was originally called Lancashire Rose but had a name change by a previous owner.

Built by William Crossfield in Arnside in 1910. At 43ftLOA (plus bowsprit) she is quite big, and has always been a yacht, with luxurious accommodation. She was initially based in Preston, had an engine fitted in 1924 and in 1927 was converted into a yawl. In 1929 she moved to Lancaster, then reconverted back to a cutter in 1948. In the early 50s her home became the Solent, and in 1975 took part to the Fastnet race. In 1988 she was sold in Italy, where she underwent a major restoration, and has been there since at her new homeport of Trieste, at the north end of the Adriatic.

One of the biggest Nobbies on the fleet built in 1911 by Armours of Fleetwood for the Hughes family of Egremont, she fished out of the Mersey from New Brighton untill the begining of the war and then went to Conway, fishing until the 1960s. she is a fine powerful boat and was runner up inthe 1990 Liverpool Nobby race, she put on a great performance with borrowed sails!!. She is owned by N G Brown of Liverpool.

Naiad was built in 1894 by Gibsons of Fleetwood and originally fished at Peel in the Isle of Man, she was brought back to condition by her then owner Rodney Swainbank and family who spent two years doing her up, she was runner up in the Liverpool nobby race in 1989 and the winner in 1990 and was skippered by John Neary. Naiad is now owned by Alan Jones who has taken her up to skipple creek to do some more work on her.

Nannette is 26 foot LOD. Moored at Fleetwood, Her her original owner W Palin reputedly sailed her to Norway with Arthur Ransome. In the late 1930's she was sold to a dentist who lived in St Mawes and sailed her to his practice in Falmouth on a daily basis. Later she was sailed by a lady from the Midlands and kept at St Just in Roseland and she can be seen in postcards moored outside the famous church. She stayed in the Falmouth area until the 1990's when she was discovered by the original owner's grandson and returned to Fleetwood. Since purchasing Nanette in 1999 the Stuart Turner engine has been replaced with a Lombardini 17 HP Diesel and she has a new set of sails by Steve Goacher and has cruised to the Isle of Man, North Wales and Liverpool and been successful in several nobby races. The picture is of Nanette sailing in Morecambe Bay April 2007.

‘Erne’ had in fact been built in 1924 by Crossfield Bros. at their small Arnside boatyard on the foreshore of Morecambe Bay, undertaking a special commission for Lord Meath and his brother Colonel Brabazon to build a cruising yacht but to the lines of the well known and proven Prawner class working boat design. The name ‘Erne’ was taken from Loch Erne a large lake near to the family estates in Ireland.

36ft, built at Crossfields of Arnside in 1912, Owned by Philip and Rose Marie Newman,she is kept in Ispwich, she is regulary sailed on the Normandy coast the 1st year that the Newmans had her they went via seeing the fleet review at Portsmouth and got as far as Guernsy, she was the winner of the 1992 Liverpool Nobby Race, and is currently in tip top condition.

Owned by W Howard, of Southport,

Rose is a 32 ft Nobby built in 1937 by Crossfields, bought as a derelict hull in the beach at Maryport in 1987 for a small sum of money, Tony and Franner Kearney spent 6 years rebuilding her in to her present condition, she spent most of her fishing years in Morecambe Bay and Maryport and Fleetwood, she is unusual in having an inside iron keelson so as to shrimp shallower water. She is now owned byChris Kerfoot.

The RUBY , is 28 ft long built by W.Stoba when at J.Gibson and son , Fleetwood 1890 . She is close seamed larch on oak and was one of four boats built as sailing ferries from Fleetwood to Knottend . She came to Barrow-in-Furness to fish in 1917 and registered BW7 she had an engine fitted before the Barrow lifeboat and was in the Quayle family for 80 years.Ruby was given to present owner Neil Morrison from Dennis Quayle after being badly damaged , currently being put back to gaff.

Built in 1898 at Crossfields of Arnside one of the oldest boats in the fleet she fished I.O.M. and Morcambe Bay for 60 years and was finally bought by the Lamb brothers, John and Peter.

Owned by Dereck Bayley, who bought her of Chris Tulloch in May this year, she has been stood in the corner of the marina for over 12 years, at the moment she’s been stripped out and sat on a steel frame in preparation for moving her to another yard, since this pic was taken Dereck has pulled the stem to bits and it looks as though stem forefoot and deadwood will all have to be renewed, sourcing oak for this at the moment after which things should move on apace. Speedwell is undergoing a rebuild, to see how she is getting on click here!!

32ft built in 1908 by Crossfields of Arnside, she fished the Morcambe bay until the early 1960s, then she fished the River Dee by the Evans family of Heswall she then returned to Maryport for many years when she was then bought by present owner Tom Middlebrook in 1989 who had her completely rebuilt over a period of three years, whe is a regular competitor in the Liverpool and Conway Nobby races

Thistle is 27ft long with a draught of 3ft.She was bought from Bob Angel in July 2003 after he had spent about five years restoring this vessel after he found her in a bad state in the trees at Penryn dock, North Wales. Prior to her being at Penryn Dock we have no information on this vessel other than a bill of sale dated 10th July 1963, transferring ownership from a Mr D Leigh, a joiner andboatbuilder who lived at 6 Back Avondale Road, Morecambe, to a Mr C Mitchell of 101 Autoban Road BirminghamWe beleive this vessel may have been built by Crossfields at Conwy, the vessel has a cast iron keel as ballast, which apperentely was a feature of Conwy built boats, and possibly dates from about 1905, although other's suggest she may have been built as late as 1925.She is now owned by Matt Reid who would love to know if any one knows her old fishing number, year of build,where whe was built or an information about her, if you can helpplease contact us and we will pass on the information to Matt.

Venture is 28ft and was fished by Henry Evans, who comes from a well known fishing family who have fished for generations from Lower Heswall. Now owned by R Coles of Hants

This is the smallest boat 20ft built in 1926 by Crossfields of Conway, originally built jigger rigged for Jack Lewis a Heswall Fisherman, she has fished mainly the Dee and a few years at Conway she was sunk and damaged in a gale at Thustaston in 1988 and then Geoff Andrews repaired her and she has been racing constantly since 1990. Geoff sold Welsh Girl in the late 1990's.

What o was built by Williams and Parkinson in 1924, she is 33 ft long. she is an unusual nobby with a separate engine room, she is currently in Conwy.

Built again by Crossfields Arnside in 1908, she is 32ft and fished Morcambe bay area, she was moored in the Formby Hole on the Mersey and fished the Mersey Esturary after the war, she was bought by Jim Weir in 1992 from the River Douglas where she had lain for many years neglected, Jim has worked on her for years getting her in to tip top condition.

No information available at present.