61. The West Mersea winkle brig BLACK DUCK was probably a discarded yacht's boat rigged with a standing lugsail for work in the river Blackwater and on the Dengie ...
Date: May 1914
Image ID BOXL_016_002

62. The Bartlett family of Wivenhoe aboard the smack DIAMOND, dredging oysters in Geeton creek.
Used in The Northseamen, page 45.
Date: c1910
Image ID BOXL_026_001_012

63. "I wonder how the WATERWITCH is doing. We'll sail close under her lee to keep clear of clear of her gear and find out."
From "Let's try for a Few Fish". ...
Date: Before February 1942
Image ID BOXL_043_001_003

64. The great moment! Out of the cod-end have shot weed, crabs, five-fingers, oyster shells, bull-rout, all over the deck, with among them some roker, a few soles ...
Date: Before February 1942
Image ID BOXL_043_001_004

65. Now that's tidied up! Up peak and staysail, down tack, sheet your jib and home we go. soon the trawl will be drying from the masthead and the fish spitting in ...
Date: Before February 1942
Image ID BOXL_043_001_005

66. Landing the catch. Tollesbury
Image ID CG5_042

67. West Mersea Parish Church, south aisle. Stained glass window by Lisa McFarlane in 2005, commemorating Mersea Island's Fishermen and Oystermen.
At the top ...
Date: 2005
Image ID CPK_WMP_003

68. The Mersea Moon-Fish. Steven Stoker left and Kevin Mole right.
The Moon-fish or Opah was found November 22nd, probably 1995.
See ...
Date: 22 November 1995
Image ID DNS_MFH_003

69. River Colne down to the Sea by Douglas Went. Photograph 50.
Unloading sprats for manure. A 1926 picture - see ...
Date: 1926
Image ID DW18_087

70. An abundance of sprats. A photograph taken in 1926 when some 40 smacks were still fishing and sprats were so abundant that they were sold at 1/- and 1/6 a ...
Date: 1926
Image ID EC63_12_084_001

71. A scalloper, CK2 and smacks on Brightlingsea Hard.
From an article on Brightlingsea by Douglas Went, published in Essex Countryside December ...
Date: 1926
Image ID EC63_12_086_001

72. Tollesbury Yard launches biggest trawler - quietly.
With a gentle sliding motion the largest trawler to be built at the Tollesbury boatyard of Frost and ...
Date: 30 April 1969
Image ID ECS_1969_MAY02_002

73. Cuttings from Essex County Standard 14 July 1978 page 22.
Island copes with 'menace'. Mosquitos
Bistro plan for Mersea - change of use from ...
Date: 14 July 1978
Image ID ECS_1978_JUL14_022_001

74. Fishing for sprats in River Blackwater - ALVIC CK137.
Date: 8 January 1980
Image ID EMN_001_002

75. Fishing for sprats in River Blackwater - ALVIC CK137 and BREADWINNER CK187.
Date: 8 January 1980
Image ID EMN_001_012

76. Fishing for sprats in River Blackwater - ALVIC CK137.
Date: 8 January 1980
Image ID EMN_001_016

77. Fishing for sprats in River Blackwater - BREADWINNER CK187.
Date: 8 January 1980
Image ID EMN_001_024

78. Fishing for sprats in River Blackwater from ALVIC CK137 and BREADWINNER CK187.
Date: 8 January 1980
Image ID EMN_002_008

79. Fishing for sprats in River Blackwater - ALVIC CK137 and BREADWINNER CK187.
Date: 8 January 1980
Image ID EMN_002_018

80. Fishing. From Fair Haven Temperance Resort brochure. Page 12.
Date: 1900s
Image ID FAV_014_001

81. Going out of 'Buzzen' on a hooking trip.
L-R George Milgate, Dave Powell, Mr Pamment Senior, Hector Green.
From Album 3.
Image ID FL03_028_004

82. GRACIE CK46
Image ID GRD_AB1_047_005

83. Landing sprats at Colchester Hythe. CK134 DIANA.
Image ID GRD_AB1_048_005

84. Landing sprats at Colchester Hythe. CK134 DIANA.
Image ID GRD_AB1_049_001

85. Landing sprats at Colchester Hythe. CK134 DIANA.
Image ID GRD_AB1_049_005

86. Landing sprats at Colchester Hythe. CK134 DIANA.
Image ID GRD_AB1_049_007

87. Landing sprats at Colchester Hythe - CK341 ANNIE. A former Dutch fishing boat, owned at Mersea between March 1980 and May 1985 by Douglas Stoker and Trevor ...
Date: c1983
Image ID GRD_AB1_051_001

88. Landing sprats at Colchester Hythe - CK314 and CK341 ANNIE.
Image ID GRD_AB1_051_007

89. Landing sprats at Colchester Hythe - CK137 ALVIC
Date: 1974
Image ID GRD_AB1_052_001

90. Landing sprats at Colchester Hythe - CK137 ALVIC
Date: 1974
Image ID GRD_AB1_052_007