David Besford (skipper)
David Besford was a Lowestoft trawler skipper who in 1985 brought in the biggest landing ever made by a beam trawler at the port.
Lowestoft
Lowestoft is a fishing port in Suffolk and the most easterly town in the United Kingdom. Its boats fished for herring from the Middle Ages until the industry declined after the mid-1960s.
Besfords skippered trawlers out of the port.
Peter Besford (skipper)
Skipper of the Lowestoft trawler Suffolk Kinsman, Peter Besford went overboard in the nets during a rescue in 1961 and swam back to the ship.
Percy Besford (skipper)
Percy Robert Smith Besford was Mentioned in Despatches in the 1944 King’s Birthday Honours.