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. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Liner GOTHIC laid up in River Blackwater. Photograph from Rue Pullen.
Date: September 1954
Image ID AN06_008_019

8. Liner GOTHIC laid up in River Blackwater. Photograph from Rue Pullen.
Date: September 1954
Image ID AN06_008_023

9. WILD AUK in the River Blackwater
Date: cJuly 1975
Image ID ASH022

10. Steamer DUNCLUTHA. 3,973 tons gross, built 1910, Official Number 129480. She was scuttled Savona 5.45.
Thames barge in background of photograph.
Image ID BF03_001_129_001

11. 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
Image ID BF03_003_007_005

12. MAURETANIA leaving her builders Swan Hunter, with Tyne pilot cobles.
Used in Spritsails and Lugsails, page 256
From: Yorkshire Craft
Date: 1907
Image ID BF19_001_031_001

13. HOMELIGHT 50grt steam tanker for Homelight Oil Co., for use on Leeds Liverpool Canal. Completed by Forrestt, Wivenhoe, 1904. Official No. 119588.
See ...
Date: c1904
Image ID BF69_009_025

14. Postcard Steaming up the Colne, Rowhedge. 144443. Vessel is CONSTANCE H, built 1929 for John Harker Ltd, Official Number 162205. She was sold in 1948 to General ...
From: Rowhedge photos and documents
Image ID BF70_001_042_001

15. Rowhedge Ironworks Ship No. 940 steel tanker MAHTAB - JAVED launched April 1963.
200ft x 32ft x 14ft. 2 x 990 bhp Lister Diesels. Official No. ...
From: Rowhedge --- photos and documents
Date: 1963
Image ID BF72_001_010_001

16. Rowhedge Ironworks - launch of tanker BEN HENSHAW built for National Benzole Co. She survived until 1970 when she broke her back after running aground near ...
From: Rowhedge --- photos and documents
Date: c1933
Image ID BF72_001_023_002

17. Rowhedge Ironworks Ship No. 484 tanker BEN HENSHAW launching 1933. A yard boat in the foreground.
Official No. 163394
Renamed GRANTEZ-1957, ...
From: Rowhedge --- photos and documents
Date: 1933
Image ID BF72_001_026_001

18. Tug RICHARD LEE BARBER and cargoship BOLTON ABBEY.
RICHARD LEE BARBER was a Great Yarmouth tug, built 1940 and broken up April 1966. Official No. ...
Date: 1958
Image ID BF72_001_034_001

19. GONDOLIER QUEEN, built by Husk in 1929. One of the Dunkirk Little Ships. In 2010 she was still working as a trip boat in Devon, under the name MY QUEEN.
From: Wivenhoe shipyards photos and documents
Date: 1929
Image ID BF73_001_027_001

20. MAINDY TOWER launch at Forrestt, Wivenhoe, Yard No. 1310, Official No. 143530. 975 grt completed 1920.
Renamed GLEDBURN-1925, GRANGETOFT-1936. 11 March ...
From: Wivenhoe shipyards photos and documents
Date: c1920
Image ID BF73_001_041_001

21. Everard's SINCERITY aground in the River Colne and causing a "River Stoppage"
Douglas Went photograph, used in The Sailor's Coast Page 29.
SINCERITY ...
From: Wivenhoe shipyards photos and documents
Date: 12 December 1936
Image ID BF73_001_042_001

22. NALON sinking. She was bombed and sunk 6 November 1940 to the West of Ireland, on a voyage Beira to Glasgow. A near miss had blown in the plates at No.3 Hold ...
Image ID BJ52_004_001

23. CLAN ALPINE III Built 1918. Torpedoed by U107 13 March 1943 190 miles west of Finisterre and sunk by escort convoy OS44.

From Clan Line Album.
Image ID BJ52_008

24. LAGUNA BELLE - Clacton on Sea. 217.
Formerly SOUTHEND BELLE, bought by Mr E. Kingsman, owner of Clacton Pier, and renamed LAGUNA BELLE. In 1935 she was ...
Image ID BJ53_001

25. m.v. CRESTED EAGLE, BUILT 1938.
In 1955 she was running Clacton to Margate.
From Eagle Line Album.
Image ID BJ53_003

26. m.v. ROCHESTER QUEEN. The vessel used to do trips Clacton - Margate etc. [BJ]
From Eagle Line Album.
Image ID BJ53_009

27. Eagle & Queen Line Programme of day steamer trips from Southend Pier. GOLDEN EAGLE, ROYAL EAGLE, ROYAL DAFFODIL, CRESTED EAGLE.
From Eagle Line Album.
Date: cMay 1949
Image ID BJ53_031

28. SILVERPINE in the River Blackwater. Part of a larger photograph.
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Image ID BOXB3_176_001_001_01

29. BALTRIGER - laid up in River Blackwater 24 October 1929 to about 21 September 1931.
She was built 1917 by Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen, Yard No 127. ...
Date: c1930
Image ID BOXB8_001_001_001

30. BOLTON ABBEY leaving Lowestoft. Built by Brooke Marine. IMO 5047742. Official No. 300398.
Date: cMay 1958
Image ID BOXB8_034_001_002