ot long after VE day, W Rowland Ingle made the one-mile trip along the Gare Loch from Silver’s yard at Rosneath to McGruer & Co Ltd at Clynder for the purchase of his next boat, , a 42ft (13m) twin-screw motoryacht. He was already the owner of a Silver 30 Silverette and James McGruer might seem a strange choice given his reputation for sailing yachts, but the answer may well lie with his son Douglas. Douglas had been in Combined Operations on a Landing Craft Tank (LCT), and was part of the initial D Day Operation Overlord assault. Grandson Matthew Ingle is certain that his father wanted to apply these experiences to a new design: “Jorvik has a strange bridge deck like nothing else you’ve ever seen, until you see a photograph of my father on his landing craft tank, the LCT 455. It’s almost exactly the same arrangement.” One might
