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A TEMPORARY exhibition illustrating the fishing boats and coastal craft of Great Britain will be opened in the Entrance Hall of the Science Museum on November 19 and will remain on view until the middle of February, 1933. Some thirty models which have been selected mainly from the large collection of small craft exhibited in Gallery 61 of the Museum, will be shown, in addition to a collection of about sixty photographic transparencies, some of boats for which no models are available in actual use, and others of detailed plans of the more important types. The arrangement will be geographical and will thus show in their proper relations the yoles and sexerns of the Shetlands and Orkneys, the fifies and baldies of the east coast of Scotland, and the cobbles of Yorkshire, together with the eighteenth century herring-busses and the early nineteenth century three-masted luggers which fished in the North Sea. East Anglia will be represented by the distinctive sailing drifters of Yarmouth, the trawlers of Lowestoft and also by the wherries and older keels of the Broads. There will also be the many craft peculiar to the Thames estuary, the barges, lighters and bawleys, besides the older wherries and peter-boats. From the south coast there will be examples of smacks from Ramsgate and Brixham, the eighteenth century hog-boats of Brighton and the luggers which have succeeded them; also the luggers of Penzance and of Fowey. Very little has yet been written about the west coast local shipping, but several typical examples will be included.
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Exhibition of British Coastal Craft. Nature 130, 771 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130771c0
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