Rait Castle, just outside Nairn, had the honour of having a boat named after it. In my perusal of local newspapers for mentions of the castle, I came across many references in the 1920s and 30s in both the Scottish and English press to a vessel of that name and the amount of white fish (cod, halibut, but especially herring) landed at Nairn, Banff, Inverness and elsewhere in Scotland and England over the years. Rait Castle is often mentioned as the bestfished boat (i.e. bringing home or landing the largest catch.)
According to the Scottish Built Ships website, was a fishing drifter built in 1912 by Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co. Ltd in Inverness at the Thornbush shipyard.The first owner was J. M. Main Sen. from Nairn, with the ship registered on 20 May 1912 in
