Summary
NOT for one moment would I think Edwardian Grimsby fishermen regarded the trawlers on which they set sail on their perilous voyages as "pretty". But they were, nonetheless.
But if you don't think the trawlers were pretty then the shipbuilders' models of them certainly were. And it was my good fortune this week to be shown an absolute classic, a glass-cased, half-model mounted on mirror-backing to give a semblance of the whole of the Manx Prince ... complete with the ceremonial scissors used on the day she was launched a century ago.See the full content of this document
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Tracing Trawler's Demise
John Ashley, her fortunate owner, has spent his entire life in the Merchant Service and now lives in retirement off Lac...
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