Motor Cruiser Singapore II’

Surveyed this beautifull old Motor Cruiser today. This is the second time ive inspected this boat.. the last time was 5 years ago! Constructed to a design relevant to the 1930’s by the yard Boatbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Walton on Naze, England. She is of a round bilge construction in displacement configured hull with a short keel, shallow draft, fairly straight stem and flat transom.



Sheerline in Thorpe are still busy building new motor cruisers....

Apparently in 1940 her owner had her built for east coast fishing, Singapore II was kept in Ipswich. Sub Lieut. F.E. Greenfell took her to Dunkirk and J.B. Patston bought her after the war in 1965 for his work as a naturalist. He lived in Lincolnshire and cruised the area of the Fens and the Wash. A collector of steam launches and a boat owner since the 1920s, he established a number of nature reserves.