PEER BUYS TRAWLER
USE AS HOLIDAY YACHT Holidaymakers in England are buying East "Coast drifters and trawlers at “ knock down prices ” and converting them into yachts. Lord Kinnoull, one of tho junior Whips of the House ot Lords, has bought a 160-ton steam trawler for £290. He told an interviewee: “ I shall convert it into a homely steam yacht. There is plenty of room for a dozen cabins- 1 hope to visit the fishing grounds. She can stand almost any weather. I was out in one in a gale m which many ships came to grief, but the trawler never caused us any anxiety.” . . , Tho 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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Evening Star, Issue 22343, 20 May 1936, Page 7
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128PEER BUYS TRAWLER Evening Star, Issue 22343, 20 May 1936, Page 7
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