1. Brightlingsea Hard. Fitting out the fleet. [DW]
Smacks legged up while fitting out for spratting on Brightlingsea Hard. Bottoms have been scrubbed and the ... Image ID BOXB5_017_001 |
2. Fitting out on Brightlingsea hard. Variation in shape of smack hulls is shown in this photograph. The underwater form was usually subtle, with a fine, ... Date: 3 November 1934 Image ID BOXB5_017_005 |
3. Smacks anchored in Brightlingsea Creek in the 1930s. CK40 is the WONDER, built at Wivenhoe in 1876 for Captain James Carter, a noted yacht skipper at the end of ... Date: c1935 Image ID BOXB5_017_009 |
4. The 250ft long, four masted cargo schooner GLORIA was designed and built in America during the 1914-18 war as one of many similar ships constructed for ... Image ID BOXB5_017_021 |
5. FIONA CK38 oldest of the scollopers leaves for the French coast. [DW]
The ketch FIONA gets her anchor to tow out of Brightlingsea Creek, bound for the ... Date: 1931 Image ID BOXB5_017_023 |
6. CLAUDE [DW]
Opening day in the Colne Fishery, about 1930. The fishery Company smack CLAUDE leads four others past the Company motor paddle dredger PYEFLEET ... Image ID BOXB5_017_025 |
7. Dredging up oysters in the River Colne. [DW]
The Colne Fishery Company smack NATIVE hauls alongside an oyster skiff to dump thousands of slipper limpets ... Date: 1936 Image ID BOXB5_017_029 |
8. Oyster dredging. Smacks at Brightlingsea going out for oysters. The oyster dredgerman in Pyefleet Creek, home of the Colchester Native. [DW]
William ... Date: 1928 Image ID BOXB5_017_031 |
9. Colne river police boats PRINCE OF WALES and ALEXANDRA stand upriver over the oyster beds they guarded. The Colne River Police were established in 1890 to take ... Image ID BOXB5_017_034 |
10. Brightlingsea, West Mersea and Colchester smacks racing in the Blackwater & Colne estuary after 1930. [DW]
The race for smacks for the Mulhauser Cup. 5 of ... Date: 1930s Image ID BOXB5_017_038 |
11. The smack DAISY 6CK in light weather with what appear to be yacht's boats in tow. She sets the typical working cutter rig of the Essex smack: mainsail, ... Image ID BOXB5_017_040 |
12. Maldon Hythe on a summer afternoon in about 1957. A glass plate by Douglas Went, used in The Sailors Coast, page 54, where John Leather writes:
Fully ... Date: c1957 Image ID BOXB5_017_044 |
13. Nov 3/34 spratting [DW]
Smacks fitting out for spratting on Brightlingsea hard in 1934. The cutter MASONIC, in the centre, has just been bored out to fit a ... Date: 3 November 1934 Image ID BOXB5_017_048 | | |