541. Smacks racing in West Mersea Town Regatta
Date: cAugust 1950
Image ID RG27_207

542. The MAYFLOWER CK44. 1962 Blackwater Barge Match Day
Date: 1962
Image ID RG27_363

543. Peldon in the 1970s at the end of the Peldon Smack Race. Chicks Milgate, Don Wright, Hervey Benham, Dick Harman and others. Smacks MN21 MAUD, MN9 JOSEPH T, ...
Image ID RG27_503

544. Strood Channel at the Nothe - hulk of smack PIONEER, since raised, restored and actively sailing.
Image ID RG27_513

545. Posted 1929. says, Dear b, will you ask Bill C(?) or sooty to get me some lug. From C. To Mrs C. Mussett, Church Villa. J. Mussett on back. smack trawling. ...
Date: Before 1929
Image ID RG27_521

546. Ron Green, Don Rainbird. Smack GRACIE Aug 1975 return after winning Swale Race. Barge MARJORIE astern.
David Green used to own the GRACIE.
Date: August 1975
Image ID RG27_547

547. Smack SAN TOY CK116. Guy Downing.
Image ID RG27_591

548. Smack IRIS ?
Image ID RG27_593

549. Unknown smack
Image ID RG27_595

550. Smack 125CK CHARLOTTE.
Date: 1934
Image ID RG27_597

551. Smacks in Buzz'n. CK159 DOROTHY, CK213 BOADICEA, CK44 MAYFLOWER
Image ID RMY_OPA_069

552. BOADICEA CK213. West Mersea Town Regatta.
Date: August 2006
Image ID RMY_OPA_071

553. Smack shrimping. Malet Merry standing on rail.
Image ID RMY_OPA_097

554. MY ALICE CK348.
Date: 2008
Image ID RMY_OPA_105

555. Leslie French's smack HYACINTH CK256 competing in West Mersea Town Regatta in the 1950s. On board are Percy Chatters at the helm, 'Peck' Hewes, Norman Chatters, ...
Image ID RSB_037

556. Smack POLLY MN12 at Maldon.
Image loaned by SSBR.
Image ID RWS_033_001

557. View from Dabchicks looking towards Ray Island with old wreck [ PIONEER ] in foreground in the hard winter of 1962-63.
Date: cJanuary 1963
Image ID SBS_005

558. In front of Coast Road looking shorewards, with smack MN39 SALLIE, in the hard winter of 1962-63.
Date: cJanuary 1963
Image ID SBS_009

559. SUNBEAM CK328 pair trawling for spratts with THISTLE. Basil Steady of Brightlingsea, John Sheilds.
SUNBEAM was built c1881. She was later sold to John ...
Date: 1960s
Image ID SD03_044_005

560. Smack HYACINTH CK256.
Resplendent in new paint the rebuilt smack HYACINTH on the slipway at Clark & Cater's West Mersea shipyard. She was originally built ...
Date: 1967
Image ID SKP_151

561. WMTR smack race. L-R 393CK MERSEA LASS, 159CK DOROTHY, CK197 UNITY and CK375 WENONAH. French.
Image ID SKP_345

562. Model smack built by Dennis Smy - the PEACE. Photograph at Brightlingsea boating lake.
Image ID SMY_011

563. Model smack built by Dennis Smy - the PEACE. Taken at Brightlingsea boating lake.
Image ID SMY_013

564. Smack MARY racing in a Regatta, around 1949. Bill Baker at the helm.
Known locally as 'big' MARY.
Notes from Ron Green:
She was bought soon after the war by a group of Paxman workers --- Peter Pullen, Bill Baker and others, who raced her in ...
Date: c1949
Image ID SS050009

565. The MARY is one of the older smacks and the photograph shows her lute stern.
This is the 'big' MARY CK78 in the 1940s, owned by Peter Pullen.
Date: 1940s
Image ID SS050010

566. Sailing Ships by Archie White Page 22. Leigh bawley.
Date: 1951
Image ID SSP_022

567. Smack PIONEER CK18 sailing into the evening sun on the River Blackwater. She was built 1886, derelict and sunk 1942, restored and relaunched 2003.
Date: 22 September 2007
Image ID TM1_9786

568. Smack PIONEER CK18 sailing into the evening sun on the River Blackwater. She was built 1886, derelict and sunk 1942, restored and relaunched 2003.
Date: 22 September 2007
Image ID TM1_9791

569. Smack PRISCILLA awaiting restoration at Pioneer Sailing Trust, Brightlingsea. She had been encased in concrete and there was a tree growing in her. CK437.
Date: 10 April 2014
Image ID TM4_0434

570. Chris Conway replacing the counter on smack MAYFLOWER CK44.
Peter Clarke's slipway, at high tide.
Date: 27 August 2017
Image ID TM7_7157