31. Launch ceremony - champagne breaking. In Forrestt photos.
From: Wivenhoe shipyards photos and documents
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32. Gowens sailmakers. The machinist is Vera French - Don Procter's mother. Herbert Welham on the right? [Ron Green]
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33. Jack Robert Gurton to Mr arthur A. Gowen.
Indenture of Apprenticeship
Date: 1 February 1912
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34. West Mersea's G.O.M. will be badly missed
Well-loved 'Admiral' Bill Wyatt is dead.
He died on Sunday at his home Ivy Cottage, Firs Chase. He was 96 on ...
Date: 3 March 1961
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35. Clarke & Carter Mast Loft.
Date: 1954
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36. Wyatt's Shed left and Munson Cook's house right on Coast Road, West Mersea. Clarke & Carter yard behind.
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37. HALCYONE from Rochester C.C. on Clarke & Carter slipway, the Hard, West Mersea. Clarke & Carter yard. Right of the yard, the Sailing and Social Club is ...
Date: cJune 1953
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38. Coast Road, Wyatt's and Munson Cooke's sheds. Harold Cutts filling the paraffin and Doug Stoker watching. Ru Pullen's bike. The chandlers shop now stands on ...
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39. Wivenhoe shipyard notebook c1897. Page 1.
How to get the 8 square of a Spar...
Caulking Scale New & Old. 130ft run a day's work...
Date: c1897
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40. Wivenhoe shipyard notebook c1897. Pages 2-3.
29 November 1897 Flood at Rowhedge and surrounding places.
28 November 1901 Flood again at Rowhedge and ...
Date: 29 November 1897
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41. Wivenhoe shipyard notebook c1897. Pages 20-21.
120 ft tug ( PENGUIN ).
[ PENGUIN Yard No. 554, ON 124449 ]
Date: c1897
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42. Wivenhoe shipyard notebook c1897. Pages 22-23.
Contract to build 35ft motor boat.
Contract to build 32ft steam cutter.
Date: c1897
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43. Wivenhoe shipyard notebook c1897. Pages 70-71. No. 1210. Estimate for 80ft Composite Yacht. Is this BRABO completed August 1913 for Belgian owner ?
Date: c1897
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44. Tollesbury smack BERTHA on Wyatts slip 1962. Built by Aldous at Brightlingsea in 1888, sailed by the Redgewell family continued fishing for over 60 yrs. In ...
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: 1962
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45. D MMS 17 [on back of photograph]
The other type of British wooden hulled motor minesweeper was known as the 126ft Class. Seven of these were built by ...
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46. FY PT 1011 just afloat at Wivenhoe. The yard boat stands by to help with mooring ropes and later in removal of sliding ways, poppets and other timber structure ...
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47. During the War at Wivenhoe. Part of "Mulberry" in the making on the River Colne. [DW]

The projected invasion of Normandy in June 1944 needed the ...
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48. MELROSE ABBEY launched at Brooke Marine, Lowestoft. IMO 5231862. Official No. 300415.
Date: 16 October 1958
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49. The staff of Gowen & Company sail loft at West Mersea, about 1920. L to R Charlie Woods, A.A. Gowen, Kenneth A.L. Gowen, Miss Gertie French (Mrs Stanley ...
Date: c1920
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50. The Boatbuilder's Art - article on building 7-tonner at W. Wyatt Ltd., West Mersea. Alex Buchanan design, built for Mr Sandison of Worcester.
Yachtsman, ...
Date: April 1965
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51. The Boatbuilder's Art - article on building 7-tonner at W. Wyatt Ltd., West Mersea. Alex Buchanan design, built for Mr Sandison of Worcester.
Yachtsman, ...
Date: April 1965
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52. The Boatbuilder's Art --- article on building 7-tonner at W. Wyatt Ltd., West Mersea.
Yachtsman, May 1965, page 40
Date: May 1965
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53. The Boatbuilder's Art - article on building 7-tonner at W. Wyatt Ltd., West Mersea.
Yachtsman, May 1965, page 41
Date: May 1965
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54. The Boatbuilder's Art --- article on building 7-tonner at W. Wyatt Ltd., West Mersea.
Charles Cook standing on the left.
Yachtsman, June 1965, page ...
Date: c1965
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55. The Boatbuilder's Art - article on building 7-tonner at W. Wyatt Ltd., West Mersea.
Yachtsman, June 1965, page 51
Date: c1965
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56. Shipyard management and workers
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57. The death of a shipyard.
A tiny craft left the slipway at Wivenhoe on Tuesday. It marked the death of a shipyard.
It was a small Admiralty suppy ...
Date: 20 January 1961
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58. LAUNCHING DAY was always a great occasion. HMS ICKWORTH goes down the ways in 1954. From Essex County Standard 3 July 1964.
But, the caption is in error ...
Date: 1954
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59. Drake Bros., Yacht and Boat Builders, Woodrolfe, Tollesbury, nr. Witham, Essex. Shipyard. An advertising postcard - used in Waterside Memories by Frank Drake.
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60. Tollesbury boatyard. Motor yacht ALDIC behind the row of sailing yachts.
Another copy ...
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