Peter boat

The Thames at Shillingford, 1823, an oil painting by John Thomas Serres. The small fishing boat in the foreground is a Peter boat.

A peter boat or peterboat was a type of fishing boat, found principally on the Thames Estuary and the adjacent coasts of eastern England. In legend, the peter boat's origins lie with the boats used to ferry passengers to and from St. Peter's Abbey, the Saxon predecessor to Westminster Abbey in London. By the middle of the second millennium, a peter boat was a double ended boat of about 12 feet (3.7 m) in length, usually used for fishing.^[1]^[2]

The Peter Boat Inn, in Leigh-on-Sea near the mouth of the Thames Estuary, is named after this type of fishing boat.^[2]

References

↑ "Peter Boat". dark-age-boats.co.uk. Dark Age Boats and Edwin Deady. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
1 2 "History Of The Peterboat". East Anglia Pub Company. Retrieved 2012-07-08.

Fishing vessels

Commercial	Commercial fishing boats Drifters Factory ships Fishery Protection Squadron Fishing fleet Longliners Research vessels Seiners Trawlers Whalers

Traditional	Traditional fishing boats Bawley Bokkura Brixham trawler Caïque Cape Islander Chasse-marée Coble Coracle Couta Currach Dhoni Dogger Dugout Falkuša Felucca Fembøring Fifie Friendship sloop Gableboat Galway hooker Herring buss Jangada Jukung Kolae Lugger Luzzu Mackinaw Monterey clipper Nobby Nordland Paraw Peter boat Pirogue Poveiro Pump boat Reed boat Sampan Sgoth Shad boat Sixareen Smack Sneakbox Well smack Yawl Yoal

Dories	Banks Cape Ann Gloucester McKenzie River Swampscott

Oyster boats	Bugeye Buy-boat Deadrise Log canoe Pungy Schooners Sharpie Skipjack

Recreational	Bass boat Farley

Builders and designers	Philip C. Bolger

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