The letter and number on a fishing boat mean that the boat is registered under the Merchant Shipping Act. The letter is the initial of the home port, and to it is sometimes added the final letter of the county in which that port is situated.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 171, 21 July 1943, Page 4
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