PEER BUYS TRAWLER
Use as Holiday Yacht Holiday-makers in England are buying East Coast drifters and trawlers at “knock-down prices” and converting them into yachts. Lord Kinnoull, one of the junior Whips of the House of Lords, has bought a 160-ton steam trawler for £290. He told an interviewer: “I shall convert it into a homely steam yacht. There is plenty of room for a dozen cabins. I hope to visit the fishing grounds. She can stand almost any weather. I was out in one in a gale in which many ships came to grief, but the trawler never caused us any anxiety.” The conversion of these boats is finding work in the shipyards, and, when they are ready for sea, for skippers, engineers and deck hands.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 199, 20 May 1936, Page 3
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127PEER BUYS TRAWLER Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 199, 20 May 1936, Page 3
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