Unofficial support for convertible trawlers

Did the Admiralty help fund trawlers that included features useful for wartime conversion?

Not as an official scheme, but indirect support could help ensure suitable conversion-ready vessels received enough funding.

The Admiralty is not described as formally funding trawlers because builders included features such as a deck able to take a four-inch gun. Officials could still find unofficial ways to ensure a useful vessel had enough money behind it. Civilian shipbuilding could therefore preserve mobilization value without appearing as a direct naval conversion subsidy.