Morecambe Bayn.

1874 E. W. H. Holdsworth Deep-sea Fishing 182 Morecambe Bay has long been famous for its shrimps..the boats engaged in this work being mostly half-decked, and cutter-rigged..and have each only one man, or sometimes a man and a boy, to work them. (Illustration Morecambe Bay Shrimper).

1978 H. Boylan Dict. Irish Biogr. at Sean Kenny An admirer of the American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, he sailed across the Atlantic from Dublin with three fellow students in the Ituna, a converted thirty-six foot Morecambe Bay shrimper.

1935 Yachting Monthly 59 141/2 The vessel was a Morecambe Bay prawner.

1985 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 17 Mar. iii. 5/1 She was raised aboard a 1908 Morecambe Bay Prawner in the River Crouch, but the seafaring history of her family can be traced back to the 18th century.

1999 Independent (Nexis) 7 July 26 Yachts of all kinds compete on equal terms in this unique race, but the Morecambe Bay Prawner..built in 1900..found the high winds too much and broke its mast soon after crossing the start-line.