His Magesty the Dory in all of its 5.3 meters lenght PLEASE PIP

The Banks dory, or Grand Banks dory, is the type of dory used during one hundred years by our fishing fleet. They were used only from around 1850 on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland until 1960. This is a one man boat. Then the Trawlers entered the scene.The Banks dory is a small, 5.30 fully open, narrow 1.45 beam, flat-bottomed and slab-sided boat with a particularly narrow transom. They were inexpensive to build carried its own number and the mother ship logo/name and could be stacked up to 6/7, nested inside each other and were stored on the deck of the mother ship. Generally there were 50 of them, which were distributed by the captain to each one of the fishermen on leaving Lisbon every Spring, one each, who should take care of it as his own property. The season ended in october/november, for the cargo must then be fully completed and the winter too . . . would be there.