kipling wrote a poem to this...in lowestoft a boat was made and she was made for the herring
trade
The Lowestoft Boat

(East Coast Patrols)

1914–18

IN Lowestoft a boat was laid,        
    Mark well what I do say!        
And she was built for the herring trade,        
    But she has gone a-rovin’, a-rovin’, a-rovin’,        
    The Lord knows where!               5

They gave her Government coal to burn,        
And a Q. F. gun at bow and stern,        
And sent her out a-rovin’, etc.        

Her skipper was mate of a bucko ship        
Which always killed one man per trip,               10
So he is used to rovin’, etc.        

Her mate was skipper of a chapel in Wales,        
And so he fights in topper and tails—        
Religi-ous tho’ rovin’, etc.        

Her engineer is fifty-eight,               15
So he’s prepared to meet his fate,        
Which ain’t unlikely rovin’, etc.        

Her leading-stoker’s seventeen,        
So he don’t know what the Judgments mean,        
Unless he cops ’em rovin’, etc.               20

Her cook was chef in the Lost Dogs’ Home,        
    Mark well what I do say!        
And I’m sorry for Fritz when they all come        
A-rovin’, a-rovin’, a-roarin’ and a-rovin’,        
Round the North Sea rovin’,               25
The Lord knows where!