151. Houseboat HOTSPUR with work being done on deck. HOTSPUR was built by M.E. Ratsey, Cowes, in 1874. Official No. 67593.
Date: 29 July 2007
Image ID TM1_8292

152. Houseboats at West Mersea. SILVER FOX (nearest), L'ESPERANCE (blue hull), PUFFIN, former LCA, large steel ex barge.
PUFFIN is ex MARALI 37ft ex RNLI ...
Date: 29 July 2007
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153. Houseboats at West Mersea. Centre PUFFIN with the large 'cabin', extreme right HOTSPUR (with MULROY beyond her ?)
PUFFIN is ex MARALI 37ft ex RNLI O.N.465 ...
Date: 29 October 2007
Image ID TM1_9960

154. Houseboats at West Mersea. L-R GYPSY ROSE, PUFFIN, ?, former LCA, ?, steel ex-fishing boat with brown transom that never fully got into a mud berth, OTHONA.
Date: 16 October 2011
Image ID TM3_1394

155. Houseboats at West Mersea. No40, GYPSY ROSE.
Date: 16 October 2011
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156. Houseboats at West Mersea. L-R SPRAY (2 decks), MULROY ?, No40.
Date: 16 October 2011
Image ID TM3_1396

157. Scrollwork from the bow of the steam yacht SEAHORSE. The 1891 steam yacht became a houseboat at West Mersea, and was dismantled in 2005. The scroll work was ...
Date: March 2013
Image ID TM3_3499

158. Houseboats at West Mersea. Right No40, HOTSPUR.
Date: 4 August 2017
Image ID TM7_0834

159. Houseboats at West Mersea. L-R No40, GYPSY ROSE, L'ESPERANCE.
Date: 4 August 2017
Image ID TM7_0846

160. Hove Hill and the houseboats. NANALOA on the left.
Date: August 1993
Image ID TM93_012

161. Houseboats at West Mersea. No40 and HOTSPUR.
Date: 22 September 2021
Image ID TM9_0885

162. Hove Creek and in the distance Coast Road at the bottom of Hove Hill. Snow and ice. On the left is the houseboat LA NOISETTE.
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163. 1939-40 ice and houseboat RAVEN owned by Whelpton family. Looking across Victory Dock to the Victory Hotel.
RAVEN was damaged by a bomb in the war and ...
Date: cJanuary 1940
Image ID UPA_049_003

164. Houseboats at West Mersea. In foreground is GREY GULL in Hove Creek.
Centre is DOLPHIN - an ex RNLI Self Righting lifeboat.
Behind L-R PEGGOTTY, AVEL, ...
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165. Houseboats at West Mersea
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166. Houseboat MARY ROSE at West Mersea. She was owned by the Swan family 1959 and 1960 and was a former Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter.
Date: cAugust 1959
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167. On board houseboat MARY ROSE at West Mersea.
From front left, Guida Swan, Verity Swan and visiting girl
Behind, visiting boy and their mother. ...
Date: cAugust 1959
Image ID VLF_003

168. Hugh Snape and his mother on holiday on the houseboat ARK ROYAL at West Mersea.
Date: c1959
Image ID VLF_011

169. Hugh Snape and his father on holiday on houseboat ARK ROYAL at West Mersea.
Date: c1959
Image ID VLF_012

170. Hugh Snape on holiday on houseboat ARK ROYAL at West Mersea.
Image ID VLF_013

171. Hugh Snape and his mother on holiday on houseboat ARK ROYAL at West Mersea.
Date: c1959
Image ID VLF_014

172. Wm. Wyatt Ltd, Waterside, Mersea Island.
Hire of mud berth ½ yr to 31 Mar'59. £4 10s.
From papers for houseboat MARY ROSE West Mersea ...
Date: March 1959
Image ID VLF_151

173. S.A.M. Hines High Street, West Mersea.
Received from Mr Donald Arthur Swan the sum of £94.9.4d being the purchase money for the houseboat MARY ROSE ...
Date: 9 May 1959
Image ID VLF_161

174. Houseboats at West Mersea. L-R L'ESPERANCE (in background, MEG MERRILEES, PEGGOTTY, AVEL.
Date: 1950s
Image ID WAT_OPA_001

175. Houseboats - MAUREEN on the left. MEG MERRILEES in centre.
Image ID WAT_OPA_003

176. 1940s Thora Thompson and Alan Waters. PORT ERROLL in buzz'n. Mizzen of L'ESPERANCE extreme right.
Date: c1946
Image ID WAT_OPA_007

177. On MEG MERRILEES - Dorothy Spalding.
Galliotts on Coast Road in the background.
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178. On MEG MERRILEES - Dorothy Spalding (probably Mrs Waters by now) and Alan Waters
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179. On MEG MERRILEES about 1950. L-R Garth Cooper, Alan Waters, Ruth & Jack Waters, Denis Rose.
Date: c1950
Image ID WAT_OPA_015

180. Dorothy Spalding on MEG MERRILEES. Dutch barge HEREWARD in background.
Image ID WAT_OPA_017