The 162 ton transformer arrived in Penzance by boat, and was driven through Penzance town centre on the way to an electric sub-station in Indian Queens.
The Conqueror was a modern freezer trawler built by Hall, Russel & Co Ltd in Aberdeen1965, for the Northern Trawlers Company. By 1977 she had undergone a major refit to extend her freezer capacity, and left her home port of Hull to go mackerel…