1. Smacks in the ice. Looking up the South Channel Creek from St. Osyth Stone in a hard winter about 1929. The smacks lie to their anchors amidst the swirling snow...
Date: c1929
Image ID BF69_015_015

2. Fishing boats lying on the Hard at Brightlingsea. Left is CK283 MASONIC or (less likely) CK383 MEHALAH.
Date: c1928
Image ID BOXB3_150_001_001

3. Two reef breeze. Some of the West Mersea oyster smacks cruising in. GEORGE & ALICE 76CK in the lead, 36CK ELECTRON on the left. The laid up vessel extreme left...
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: c1935
Image ID BOXB3_176_001_001

4. Maldon Hythe on a summer afternoon about 1957. The smacks include MN21 MAUD and MN23. The barge NELLIE PARKER is on the blocks in the distance. Smoke from...
Date: c1957
Image ID BOXB3_180_001_001

5. WILLIAM & EMILY of Colchester, Tollesbury 1964
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: 1964
Image ID BOXB3_245_001_001

6. Tollesbury smacks on the hard circa 1938. CK431 A.D.C., CK212 WILLIAM & EMILY
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: c1938
Image ID BOXB3_247_001_001

7. A scalloper, CK2 and smacks on Brightlingsea Hard.
From an article on Brightlingsea by Douglas Went, published in Essex Countryside December 1963.
Date: 1926
Image ID EC1_WEN_715

8. Smack CK256 HYACINTH
Image ID LH1_040

9. Smack CK171 PEACE
Image ID LH1_041

10. Smacks racing in the Blackwater --- a sight still regularly seen.
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11. Smacks on the Blackwater. CK44 MAYFLOWER on the left. Bradwell Power Station beyond.
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12. Smack MN23 LIZZIE ANNIE
Image ID LH1_046

13. Smacks in the Blackwater. CK171 PEACE and CK256 HYACINTH
Image ID LH1_047

14. MAUD MN21. One of a set of photographs from Eddie Caswell who owned MAUD in the late 1970s. The full set of photographs can be found on website ...
Date: c1978
Image ID IA1_MAUD_7A

15. Smack FASHION on Maldon Promenade beach
FASHION was built by Aldous at Brightlingsea in 1894, registered as CK428. In 1923 she was sold and reregistered as...
Date: c1938
Image ID PA1_RG1_AB01_RON16

16. PRISCILLA MN76. A picture from the Eddie Caswell collection. Eddie owned the PRISCILLA 1979-1984. You can find the full set of pictures on website ...
Image ID IA1_PRIS_46

17. Returning from Maldon Carnival on smack PHANTOM. Vinces and Greens.
Image ID RG020008

18. Smack IDA 64CK --- Bill Mussett. The Port line ship laid up on the right is probably the PORT ADELAIDE or PORT NICHOLSON.
Image ID RG040002

19. West Mersea Town Regatta smack race. Left to right 393 CK 'Mersea Lass', 159 CK 'Dorothy', CK 197 'Unity' and CK 375 'Wenonah'.
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20. Smack MARY racing in a Regatta, around 1949. Bill Baker at the helm.
Known locally as 'big' MARY.
Notes from Ron Green:
She was bought soon after the war by a group of Paxman workers --- Peter Pullen, Bill Baker and others, who raced her in early...
Date: c1949
Image ID SS050009