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Scale 1:48. A contemporary half block design model of the prawn smack 'Queen Alexandra' circa 1907. It is inscribed with the name ‘LN223 Queen Alexandra’ on the starboard bow. These smacks were either rigged as a single- or twin-masted ketches and would fish in estuaries and off the coast. The prawn smacks would haul the catch aboard in nets and put them straight into the large kettle on deck for boiling. This enabled the prawns to be landed and sold immediately to a ready market.
A label on the reverse of the backboard reads, ‘A building model for a Lynn Prawn Smack made and designed [sic] by Worfolk & Son, Kings Lynn 1907. She proved to be the fastest sailing boat in the Wash. These smacks had to return to port between tides and often sailed out 40 miles to their fishing grounds, making 1 or 2 hauls. Presented by T.C. Lethbridge Gr. Shelford (? illegible) Cambs. C F Tebbutt St. Neots. Hunts (? illegible)’.
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