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'Sovereign' is the UK’s oldest working fishing boat (over 10m), built in 1936 by Wilson Noble in Fraserburgh for a Newhaven (Edinburgh) fisherman called Tom Hall, originally registered as LH171. She was decommissioned in February 2009, acquired and restored by members of the North East Maritime Trust and relaunched in April 2011.

The 43-feet boat was requisitioned by the Royal Navy during World War II and returned to the north-east of England to fish off Seahouses in Northumberland in 1960, where she was registered as BK29, and then on to Hartlepool and North Shields.

Amble boatbuilder, Fred Crowell, shared the secret of the ship's name:
"It was traditional to bury a coin somewhere on the vessel, so the vessel always had money to rely on. The [sovereign] coin should be beneath the mast, but on this one it's underneath a bollard."
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