151. West Mersea Yacht Club Regatta.
From The Yachtsman and Motor Boating, page 387.
Photographs of Royal Artillery Yacht Club outside West Mersea Club ...
Date: 4 August 1934
Image ID BOX058_007_367

152. Launch of the auxiliary schooner DWYN WEN.
From Yachting Monthly May 1906, page 142.
Date: cMay 1906
Image ID BOX160_001_142

153. Brightlingsea One-Design SYBIL (No.5), later TILLER GIRL, owned at one time by John Leather, followed by MILDRED (7) (later EDWINA) and EGRET (8) --- inset ...
Image ID BOXA1_035_001_001

154. In the years before World War 2, Harwich was a regular venue for big yacht racing and the Big Class season would start with Harwich Regatta and work its way ...
Date: June 1934
Image ID BOXA4_031_009

155. ENDEAVOUR surges by, following VELSHEDA out of Harwich in 1934. Despite the light wind she moves swiftly in the calm water under a large Genoa jib and mainsail. ...
Date: 1934
Image ID BOXB2_400_001

156. The crew of SHAMROCK V, at anchor before her transatlantic passage in 1930. Mate Lemon Cranfield stands by the guardwires at the extreme left. Pride of place is ...
Date: 1930
Image ID BOXB2_400_005

157. SATANITA. Captain Tom Jay of Rowhedge. The largest of the First Class yachts of 1893, at full speed on a reach.
Used in The Big Class Racing Yachts page ...
Date: c1893
Image ID BOXB2_400_007

158. River Dart crowded with yachts for Regatta Week in 1896.
Used in The Big Class Racing Yachts page 56.
Date: 1896
Image ID BOXB2_400_021

159. AILSA and BRITANNIA at their best. 1895. Captain Tom Jay in AILSA, Captain John Carter in BRITANNIA. Long racing rivals but near neighbours at home in ...
Date: 1895
Image ID BOXB2_400_023

160. Schooner ADELA reaching at her maximum speed about 1904. She was built by J. & G. Fay for Claud T. Cayley. She later became HEARTSEASE and after 1939 became a ...
Image ID BOXB2_400_045

161. The hulk of the 23 metre racing cutter BRYNHILD, beached in Brightlingsea creek for breaking up, after her dramatic sinking at Harwich in 1910.
Used in The ...
Date: 1910
Image ID BOXB2_400_051

162. METEOR IV, designed and built in Germany 1909.
Used in The Big Class Racing Yachts page 97.
Image ID BOXB2_400_053

163. British large racing schooner MARGHERITA. 1913. Designed and built by Camper and Nicholson. 162ft length overall, 100ft w.l. Captain Alfred Embling of Gosport ...
Image ID BOXB2_400_057

164. Owner and some of the crew of the America's Cup challenger SHAMROCK IV at Gosport in 1914. Sir Thomas Lipton in the centre.
Used in The Big Class Racing ...
Image ID BOXB2_400_060

165. Hugh Paul's ASTRA reaching along for the next marik off Harwich. The destroyer in the background is H.M.S. SCOUT H51, 1,075 tons, built 1918 and scrapped ...
Image ID BOXB2_400_075

166. Crew of the SHAMROCK V 1930. Sir T. Lipton's challenger for the America's Cup.
Back row 1. Charlie Dan of Wivenhoe, cook, 2. Tom Cudmore of Tollesbury, ...
Date: 1930
Image ID BOXB2_400_083

167. ENDEAVOUR II setting her spinnaker. SWW 32.
Used in The Big Class Racing Yachts page 170.
Date: 1936
Image ID BOXB2_400_113

168. Captains Lemon and William Cranfield at the tiller of the Valkyrie II, America's Cup challenger 1893.
Used in Gaff Rig page 152.
Used in The Big Class ...
Date: 1893
Image ID BOXB3_038_001_001

169. 100ft yawl Jullanar of 1875. Used in Gaff Rig page 209
Used in The Salty Shore page 153.
From: Gaff Rig
Image ID BOXB3_047_001_001

170. The start of the race to Ostend from Brightlingsea 12 Aug 1933. FELICIA, which gained 2nd place, is seen.
ECS photo.
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: 12 August 1933
Image ID BOXB3_088_001_001

171. Colne Yacht Club Regatta. ANDRUM CURLEW.
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: c1921.
Image ID BOXB3_133_001_001

172. The steel hulled VELSHEDA thundering along off Harwich in 1934. She is preparing to round a mark before squaring away on a run to the finishing line. The ...
Date: 1934
Image ID BOXB5_013_001

173. 12 metres stand out from Harwich harbour, past the grain mills of Felixstowe Dock. This photograph was taken at the Royal Harwich Yacht Club Regatta of either ...
Date: c1929
Image ID BOXB5_013_009

174. Schooner TAMESIS. The old steamer and sailing ship type of ornamental bow for many years before 1936 seen sailing on the River Colne. [DW].
The 140 ton ...
Date: 1933
Image ID BOXB5_013_012

175. A procession of giants; VELSHEDA leading ENDEAVOUR at Harwich regatta, 1934. The royal racing cutter BRITANNIA lags well astern (left) of the two 'J' class ...
Date: 1934
Image ID BOXB5_013_016

176. Big Class yacht ASTRA rounding mark at Harwich Regatta 1934 [DW]
ASTRA surges round the Cliff End buoy off Harwich as her crew prepares to set the ...
Date: 1934
Image ID BOXB5_013_024

177. After deck of the 12 metre MARINA, 1936. Her owner, Sir William Burton, is at the wheel. Lady Burton and a guest sit at the forward end of the cockpit. Skipper ...
Date: 1936
Image ID BOXB5_013_027

178. A sight we shall never see again. A large crew of professional yacht hands hoisting the great mainsail of ENDEAVOUR II before racing. [photo ...
Date: 1936
Image ID BOXB5_013_035

179. 12 metres racing off Harwich. TRIVIA leading JANETTA. [DW]
12 metres at Harwich regatta, 1939. Sir William Burton's JENETTA in the foreground, chases V.W. ...
Date: 1939
Image ID BOXB5_013_037

180. The American 12 metre VIM (U.S.15) leads the British VANITY (K 1) at Harwich regatta, Saturday June 10th 1939; her first race against the British 12 metres ...
Date: 10 June 1939
Image ID BOXB5_013_040