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  2. Norman boat - Wikipedia

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    Norman boats are small fiberglass cabin cruisers built in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, by Norman Cruisers Limited of Shaw and Crompton in Greater Manchester, England. Norman Boats were started in 1959 by Ernie Wheeldon. The business started in Shaw Lancs, then moved to Isherwood Street in Heywood Lancs, then back to a new site in Shaw. Other ...

  3. Francis Charles Morgan-Giles - Wikipedia

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    Morgan-Giles left the service in 1920 and bought the former Gann and Palmer shipyard in Teignmouth, naming it Morgan-Giles Limited. The shipyard was derelict and required repairs before it could start operation. The yard designed and built boats for racing and leisure, including rowing boats, dinghies, motor launches and small cabin cruisers. [1]

  4. Cabin cruiser - Wikipedia

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    A cabin cruiser is a type of power boat that provides accommodation for its crew and passengers inside the structure of the craft. A cabin cruiser usually ranges in size from 7.6 to 13.7 m (25 to 45 ft) in length, with larger pleasure craft usually considered yachts .

  5. Canals of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Cabin Cruisers; Fly-boats (long and short; on the Aire and Calder Navigation) Keels (on Aire and Calder Navigation) Long boats (narrow boats used on the River Severn) Mersey Flat, a doubled-ended, fully decked carvel-built barge that worked canals in NW England.

  6. York City Rowing Club - Wikipedia

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    The public footpath and cycle (towpath) is between the river and boathouse. Wildlife encountered includes herons, kingfishers, otters and at least one seal. Downstream the river is wider with less severe bends, but is less interesting and, especially in summer, is sometimes congested with excursion craft, cabin cruisers and hired motor-boats.

  7. Microplus - Wikipedia

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    A Microplus 561 on the River Ouse near York, UK. Microplus were a range of GRP boats (glass reinforced plastic - or fibreglass) produced in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s. Originally trading as Microplas, the company has its origins in the 1950s producing bodyshells for a small number of fibreglass sports cars. However, by 1958 the company had ...

  8. Loss of MV Darlwyne - Wikipedia

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    MV Darlwyne, photographed in early 1966, before the structural alterations that replaced the aft cabin with an open cockpit.. MV Darlwyne [n 1] was a pleasure cruiser, a converted Royal Navy picket boat, that disappeared off the Cornish coast on 31 July 1966 with its complement of thirty-one (two crew and twenty-nine passengers, including eight children).

  9. Merritt Boat & Engine Works - Wikipedia

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    In the 1930s and the 1940s, blue marlin and bluefin tuna were abundant in the waters of Cuba, Bimini and Cat Cay just a few miles off the Florida coast, targeted by fishermen such as Ernest Hemingway, and Habana Joe aboard his 1938 40-foot Wheeler named Pilar.