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. ID AA000850 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 ...
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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. Liner GOTHIC laid up in River Blackwater. Photograph from Rue Pullen.
Date: September 1954
Image ID AN06_008_019 |
5. Liner GOTHIC laid up in River Blackwater. Photograph from Rue Pullen.
Date: September 1954
Image ID AN06_008_023 |
6. WILD AUK in the River Blackwater
Date: cJuly 1975
Image ID ASH022 |
7. 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 |
8. 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 |
9. 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 |
10. 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 |
11. 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 |
12. 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 |
13. 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 |
14. 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 |
15. 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 |
16. 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 |
17. 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 |
18. SILVERPINE in the River Blackwater. Part of a larger photograph.
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Image ID BOXB3_176_001_001_01 |
19. BALTRIGER was laid up in River Blackwater 24 October 1929 to about 21 September 1931. See BOXB8_001_001_002 for rear of photograph which contains a full ...
From: Misc notes and photos
Date: c1930
Image ID BOXB8_001_001_001 |
20. BOLTON ABBEY leaving Lowestoft. Built by Brooke Marine. IMO 5047742. Official No. 300398.
Date: cMay 1958
Image ID BOXB8_034_001_002 |
21. MELROSE ABBEY launched at Brooke Marine, Lowestoft. IMO 5231862. Official No. 300415.
Date: 16 October 1958
Image ID BOXB8_034_001_008 |
22. Steel Paddle Steamer. Page from Otto Andersen catalogue.
Unidentified
Image ID BOXD1_002_046 |
23. Screw Oil Tank Vessel constructed for service in the Far East. Page from Otto Andersen catalogue.
Image ID BOXD1_002_056 |
24. Single Screw Motor Coaster.
CRISTO and similar Vessels
A page from Otto Andersen catalogue.
BOXD1_002_061 has plan of top vessel, named ...
Image ID BOXD1_002_059 |
25. Plan of Single Screw Motor Coaster. A page from Otto Andersen catalogue --- vessel is also shown on BOXD1_002_059. Name on the plan is INNISVERA.
Miramar ...
Date: 1914
Image ID BOXD1_002_061 |
26. Cruise liner VOLTAIRE laid up in River Blackwater off Bradwell. She was in the river from 1929 to 7 May 1932.
From: East Coast Camera
Date: 1931
Image ID BOXQ_002_001_001 |
27. IMPERIAL PRINCE laid up in River Blackwater. She was in the river from 1930 to 7 June 1935, and had also been laid up in the River in 1926 as LONDON MARINER
From: East Coast Camera
Date: c1931
Image ID BOXQ_002_001_002 |
28. Off Tollesbury. Postcard 126374 not mailed.
The vessel on the left is HIGHLAND ROVER - one of a class of 10 built for Nelson Line 1910-11. They were ...
Date: Before 20 October 1932
Image ID CG14_023 |
29. MV PURBECK on the hard at Brightlingsea. She had worked for A.J. Brush in the ballast trade.
Date: 1967
Image ID CGT_001 |
30. WILKS London - Coasters at Colchester Hythe.
Built Yorkshire Dry Docks 1976 495 tons Official No. 366101.
1986 converted to tanker, renamed TEESDALE H. ...
Date: August 1970
Image ID CGT_001_001 |
