Admiralty Pattern Trawler Boat
This Admiralty pattern trawler boat is believed to have been built during the mid-1940’s. Quite possibly she served as a lifeboat on an admiralty trawler; alternatively, boats of this kind were used extensively on the Flower class corvettes. We know that in later years she was in use as a lifesaving boat on the Admiralty Floating Dock in Portsmouth, and later transferred to the shipwright apprentices training centre as a demonstration aid for boat-building.
She was transferred to Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Society in 1992, and then to Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust in 1998. The Trust's long term plan is to refurbish the boat as an example of Second World War Admiralty pattern trawler boat.Boat Stats
Length Overall
16ft
Beam
5ft 9in
Draft
16in
Displacement
500lbs (approximately)
Engine
Oars or sail
Construction
Clinker
Date Built
1940s
Boat Yard
Unknown