NEW TRAWLER
VESSEL TO BE LAUNCHED ON SATURDAY BUILT FOR HARD WORK At 5.30 o’clock oia Saturday morning the trawler Dorothy M. will glide down the slips into the harbour. Built to the order of Mr. Jack Munro by C. Bailey and Son, Ltd., the Dorothy M. is a 50-footer, with a 14ft. beam and 4ft. 6in. draught. She is to be used for Seine netting. A three-skin boat, diagonal-built, the craft is fitted with a 58 h.p. four-cyl-inder, crude oil engine. Electric light is fitted throughout, and there is a patent coiler on deck, while a roomy fish hold, insulated with cork, is prorided. She is about nine tons and has a speed of nine knots. In view of the hard work she will be engaged in, the Dorothy M. lias ! been specially built for strength.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 772, 19 September 1929, Page 18
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137NEW TRAWLER Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 772, 19 September 1929, Page 18
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