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Ann Marcel. PZ 389 Built by Peake, Newlyn. Launched in August 1965.A 27‐foot crabber built for David Hosking, of Porthleven. She was designed by Mr HN Peake to the requirements of the White Fish Authority, and was 27 feet long with a beam of 9 feet and 3 ft 6 inch draft. She was carvel‐built of one‐inch larch planking on sawn oak frames at 15 inch centres: the keel and stem were also of oak. As befitting her intended purpose, she had a large unobstructed well deck aft with a steering shelter forward; the engines (located immediately aft of the steering shelter) consisted of a 24 hp Lister main engine with an 8½ hp similar engine on the port quarter; the main engine alone giving her a speed of about eight knots. An Echo sounder was also fitted. Reference:
[Glenys Peake, 2009. CG Bainbridge, Cornish Boats and Boat‐builders: Peake's of Newlyn, Cornish Magazine, Vol 8 No 8 December 1965:178‐179. NA 1041, 1042, 1043]
BOAT: Ann Marcel_PZ389_built in Newlyn by Peakes for David Hosking of Porthleven. Launched 1965
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