1. Barges alongside Mistley Quay, XYLONITE and RELIANCE both owned by FW Horlock. XYLONITE one of last spritsail barge launched and was built at Mistley 1926
From: LOCAL PHOTOS, POSTCARDS
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2. Flooding Mistley Quay
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3. Ketch barge WESSEX. Boomie
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4. ALEXANDRA, one of the few Poole-built barges, at Newport, Isle of Wight. (G.Archdale/Richard Hugh Perks Collection).
Used in The Big Barges, P95..
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5. West Quay and lift bridge, Great Yarmouth. Ketch barge STAR of Colchester when she was Yarmouth owned.
STAR built Aldous, Brightlingsea, 1868. Official ...
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6. HADLEIGH CASTLE 1912 loading threshing tackle Barling Quay to deliver on Potton Island. James Walton on deck (left hand). From H Smith, High Street, Great ...
Date: 1912
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7. Twickenham Thames. On left is ketch barge NELLIE MAUD, Rochester, 84376. Built 1881 (?). Owner Chas. Tilhurst, Faversham
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8. Horlocks DOROTHY ? or MARJORIE at Woodbridge.
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9. Ketch barge KATE & EMILY at Pin Mill. Official Number 415.
The Big Barges describes the KATE and EMILY as "A clumsy barge with square stern and round ...
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10. Kirby - the quay. Sailing barge FRED. She belonged to Smeed Dean & Co, of Kent and had probably brought bricks.
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11. A typical staysail barge with a load of softwood planks from ships at the Surrey Dock in London, bound coastwise in the Thames Estuary in the 1940s. Photo from ...
Date: c1945
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12. The last commercial square rigger to discharge at Ipswich with the spritsail barges MAY and KIMBERLEY. Photo Arthur Bennett.
The square rigged ship is the ...
From: LOCAL PHOTOS, POSTCARDS
Date: July 1939
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13. Colchester Hythe. The barges are left to right ESTHER, VERA and LANDRAIL (Marriages). The steamer is GEM.
Date: c1906
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14. The Hythe, Colchester, Essex. Barges loading straw for Ridham in Kent.
Used in Down Tops'l page 128.
From: Colchester River.
Date: 1946
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15. Revival of straw trade. Stackies being towed down Colchester River in 'convoy', bound for the Kent paper mills. The left hand barge is BRITISH EMPIRE registered ...
Date: c1948
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16. Schooner barge FRIENDSHIP of 1890. Another copy of the photograph has the caption "Ketch barge under tow leaving Dover ( Roger Finch )"
From MNL 1891: ...
Date: after 1890
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17. Sailing barge ONWARD
From: Lynn and Boston --- LOCAL PHOTOS, POSTCARDS ETC
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18. Faversham sailing barge, Goldfinch's GARIBALDI, built 1861, when she had been converted to a sprittie. From a painting by James Webb at Chelsea in the 1880s. ...
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19. Weymouth --- steamer ALGETHI registered Shoreham and sailing coaster OLYMPIA. This picture is in The Big Barges, P87
ALGETHI was 548 tons, built 1902 ...
From: Lynn and Boston
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20. The harbour, West Bay, Bridport
From: Lynn and Boston --- LOCAL PHOTOS, POSTCARDS ETC
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21. On the Seine near Rouen about 1900. Boomie (perhaps DAVENPORT) lying alongside sprittie LORD WARDEN (R. H. Perks collection).
Used in The Big Barges P111
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22. Ketch barge GOLDFINCH at Falmouth lying to two anchors in a gale with leeboards lowered. She has double topsails with gaff topsail stowed in the rigging. Later ...
From: Lynn and Boston
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23. High water in the Colne. A fleet of barges gets under way with the first of the ebb, bound for the Thames and Medway. This photograph was one of Douglas Went's ...
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24. Barges mustering in the Colne - morning.
From: Barges
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25. Barges in the Colne
From: Barges
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26. Barges --- negative
Used in Saltwater Village Page 47.
From: Barges
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27. Barges at Ipswich.
From: Barges
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28. VERONICA barge.
From: Barges
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29. Barge VERONICA
From: Barges
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30. VERONICA barge
From: Barges
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