The Selsey Fishing Fleet

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Notes

1 Recorded in a locally produced short film Sea’s the Day. The Whitstable oyster dredgers also spent much of the year on offshore moorings exposed to easterly winds, although in that case some protection was afforded by a drying shingle bank. March, Inshore Craft, 22.

2 National Maritime Museum (hereafter NMM), MSS 70/131, H. Oliver Hill manuscript notes, vol. 28.

3 Mee, History of Selsey, 86 and 50.

4 Ibid., 41.

5 Alfalo, Sea Fishing Industry, 268.

6 West Sussex Records Office (hereafter WSRO), CE /3/3/3. Littlehampton Fishing Vessel Register (herafter LFVR) 1902–37. It is not known how many of these losses occurred while the boats concerned were lying unmanned on moorings.

7 Retired Selsey fisherman, pers. comm.

8 Carr, ‘Surviving Types of Coastal Craft’, 149; White, British Fishing Boats, index; P. J. Oke drawings at NMM, Plans and Photographs section.

9 March, Inshore Craft, 153.

10 WRSO, CE/3/3/3, LFVR 1902–37.

11 Ibid.

12 Alfalo, Sea Fishing Industry, 282.

13 WRSO, CE/3/3/4, LFVR 1936–57.

14 Thurston Hopkins, Small Sailing Craft, 151.

15 WRSO, CE/3/3/4, LFVR 1936–1957

16 Mee, History of Selsey, 44.

17 Chichester District Council announcement 14 Feb. 2017.

18 Chichester Post, 6 Mar. 2018.

19 First Come First Served news agency release 26 Feb. 2018.