A historic fishing vessel commissioned for the Young’s family fishing business almost a century ago is to be restored with help from the modern seafood giant.
The Grimsby-headquartered firm, with a legacy dating back to Eliza Young’s whitebait sales by the River Thames in 1805, will support a preservation project of Saxonia, likely to cost more than £30,000.
Currently berthed at Pinmill in Suffolk, she was commissioned by William Joseph Young, the great, great nephew of Eliza in 1929. The 35ft ‘bawley’ vessel - a broad-beamed shallow-draft cutter-rigged fishing boat used especially for shrimping around the Thames and Medway estuaries - was bought for £475 to fish for whitebait, continuing the tradition.
