1. A piece of ENDEAVOUR's tow rope which was severed on the night of 13th September 1937 at about 11 o'clock at night in the Atlantic, 200 miles off Nantucket on...
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2. Some of Aldous's mudberths - steam yachts laid up for the winter at Brightlingsea. From the Aldous Catalogue c1936
"River Colne Shipbuilders" dates the...
Date: 1931
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3. In the years before World War 2, Harwich was a regular venue for big yacht racing and the Big Class season would start with Harwich Regatta and work its way...
Date: June 1934
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4. Wivenhoe church tower looking down river. Daniell & Sons Black Boy in foreground. Steam yachts in moorings.
In "The Story of Wivenhoe", Nicholas Butler...
Date: Before 1913
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5. The blue hulled ENDEAVOUR, K4, and the green hulled ASTRA, K2, prepare for the start at Southend on Sea regatta in 1934. Both have a single reef in the mainsail...
Date: 1934
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6. Peaceful calm on the Chelmer Navigation.
Douglas Went photograph
Used in The Salty Shore, page 156.
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7. The last of the steam yachts lying in the River Colne in the late 1920s --- VITA and MEDEA.
MEDEA was built A. Stephen & Sons, Glasgow, 1904. Official No....
Date: c1929
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8. Barge HYACINTH in nearly her last resting place at Tollesbury late 1930s. The remains were removed to build Tollesbury Marina. Motor yacht ALDIC on the right.
Date: c1938
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9. Wishbone schooner ELVER being winched across Coast Road at Clarke & Carter's yard. Elgar Mussett watching
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10. Wishbone Schooner ELVER, owned by Mr Harrison, skipper Ron Pullen
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11. HSL 145 at speed in her working days. She later became the motor yacht NANALOA.
Thank you to ...
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12. NANALOA (H.S.L. 145) on her journey from Birdham to the Blackwater
Date: 1947
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13. NANALOA and Pat Zierold on her journey from Birdham to the Blackwater
Date: 1947
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14. NANALOA
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15. NANALOA on the Blackwater
Date: c1984
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16. NANALOA in the lock at Heybridge. She was kept at the Basin from 1947 to 1982.
Date: c1960
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17. NANALOA in the 1980s undergoing 'routine maintenance' at West Mersea. After 1982 Pat Zierold kept her on a mooring in the Quarters.
Date: c1985
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18. An immaculate looking NANALOA on Clarke Carter slipway at Mersea.
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19. NANALOA resting at West Mersea by Wyatt's slipway. She is an ex Air Sea Rescue launch from World War 2, 63ft Whale-back type, built 1940 by the British Power...
Date: 1 June 2009
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20. NANALOA resting at West Mersea by Wyatt's slipway. She is an Air Sea Rescue launch from World War 2, 63ft Whale-back type, built 1940 by the British Power Boat...
Date: 1 June 2009
Image ID SHP_NAN_907

21. Auxiliary schooner WESTWARD. It is not known where this picture was taken but would be 1924 to 1939. She was at Harwich as HMS BADGER during WW2 and was moored...
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