1. MICHALAKIS aground on the mudflats opposite Empress Avenue at West Mersea. She had broken adrift on 14th February 1958 and was refloated by tugs on 16th ...
Date: c15 February 1958
Image ID AA000540

2. Newsprint carrier MARKLAND laid up in the River Blackwater
Date: c1963
Image ID AA000760

3. Looking towards the Tollesbury shore. Ships laid up in the River Blackwater in the icy winter of 1963. The boats from Mersea were unable to get out to the ships ...
Date: 1 February 1963
Image ID AA000850

4. Pat Mead's ex lifeboat on the left and Allan Bird on his DOGGER BANK CK12 on the right.
Date: 2022
Image ID ABD_BK1_033_001

5. Allan Bird's DOGGER BANK CK12.
Bought c1963
"She had already been used for dredging, trawling, winkling and herring drifting She had also suffered a ...
Date: c1964
Image ID ABD_BK1_039_001

6. Allan Bird's oyster skiff MYSTERY. She was bought by Allan Feb 1982 from Jeffrey Wass and had been CK59.
Date: c1983
Image ID ABD_BK1_073_001

7. Allan Bird's NATIVE No. 1, CK12
Built at Botley near Southampton, Allan and David Stoker went down to see their work in 1980. Allan ordered one and David ...
Date: cApril 1983
Image ID ABD_BK1_076_001

8. Allan Bird Towing a lighter out to a vessel laid up in the River Blackwater. The vessel is the QUEEN which was in the River 10 July 1983 to 20 December 1983
Date: cAugust 1983
Image ID ABD_BK1_077_001

9. Herring drifting on NATIVE CK12 (No. 1)
Date: c1984
Image ID ABD_BK1_080_001

10. Allan Bird's NATIVE No.2 CK12
Built by Offshore Steel Boats at Hull - the first of what became six similar boats for Mersea owners. NATIVE was started ...
Date: 1988
Image ID ABD_BK1_094_001

11. Allan Bird's NATIVE No. 2 CK12, pair trawling.
Date: 2022
Image ID ABD_BK1_100_001

12. Dredger MARLIN P668 from Portsmouth. Bought by Allan Bird c1995, she became the third NATIVE CK12.
Date: c1995
Image ID ABD_BK1_112_001

13. Allan Bird's oyster dredger NATIVE CK12 No. 3., formerly P668 MARLIN. Bought by Allan in 1995 and given major refit by Ralph Woods on Burma Road. June 1991 ...
Date: C1997
Image ID ABD_BK1_115_001

14. Ships laid up in River Blackwater
Nearest PHORKYSS, and behind her STANTHORPE.
PHORKYSS was laid up in the River from 28 May 1960 to 20 October ...
Date: cJune 1960
Image ID AJ01_003

15. Tanker CHARTSMAN taken by Brightlingsea photographer Alf Jefferies. Probably in the Colne off Brightlingsea, loaded and inward bound for Colchester where she ...
Date: c1960
Image ID AJ01_201

16. Troopship EMPIRE PARKESTON at Hook of Holland. She was on a regular run from Parkeston Quay, Harwich.

She was built 1f930 by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, ...
Image ID AJ01_311

17. Rue Pullen on PEDRO on a trip to view the ships in the river. The GOTHIC is in the background. Sept 1955 is written on the back of the photograph but newspaper ...
Date: September 1954
Image ID AN01_061

18. Rue Pullen on PEDRO on a trip to view laid up ships in the River Blackwater. The back of the photograph says Sept 1955 but another photo dates it to 1954
Date: September 1954
Image ID AN01_063

19. Rue Pullen's trip boat PEDRO. This is the first PEDRO. Photo on Air Ministry paper so just after WW2.
Date: c1948
Image ID AN01_071

20. Joan Pullen on PEDRO I. Poster on bulkhead for Mersea - Bradwell Motor Boat Service.
Date: c1948
Image ID AN02_002_011

21. Launch of Ru Pullen's PEDRO II CK9 at Wyatt's. Ed Wyatt standing in centre of boat. Photograph from Regal Studios, West Mersea.

John Milgate helped ...
Date: 28 May 1949
Image ID AN02_003_007

22. Rue Pullen. PEDRO.
Image ID AN03_018_001

23. Rue Pullen and PEDRO. Barge Match
Date: 1966
Image ID AN03_025_001

24. Boxing Day 1949. Wormell's boat with Mr Wormell at the wheel. He was a garage owner from Sudbury.[Ron Green and John Milgate]
Date: 26 December 1949
Image ID AN04_003_005

25. PEDRO.
Image ID AN04_015_013

26. Boats in the ice at West Mersea Hard in the winter of 1963.
SEADRIFT (a converted ship's lifeboat), PEDRO, Hec Stoker's EVELYN
Date: cFebruary 1963
Image ID AN05_004_007

27. Icy creeks looking across to Feldy. CK62 EVELYN owned by Hector Stoker in centre and PEDRO on the right. Photo R.C. Pullen
Date: 22 January 1963
Image ID AN05_006_001

28. Rue Pullen PEDRO II.
Image ID AN05_016_001

29. Rue Pullen, PEDRO 1 on the Causeway at West Mersea Hard.
Image ID AN05_017_005

30. West Mersea. 1. Emily Pullen, 2. Doreen Dodds, 3. Rue PUllen, 4. Tom Dodds
Date: 1951
Image ID AN06_003_011