drift-boats

Updated: May 17, 2025

The two hundred seins and twice two hundred drift-boats belonging to that coast employed at least six thousand fishermen, and of these the greater part, as soon as the fishing season was at an end, either turned "tinners" and went into the mines, where they were unassailable,

J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson - The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore