1. The hard winter of 1962/1963. Ice MAYFLOWER, MERSEA LASS, MARY, THISTLE F123.
THISTLE was owned by Ronnie Garriock.
Date: cJanuary 1963
Image ID ABD_003

2. Frozen creeks in the hard winter 1962 - 1963. Smack PRISCILLA
Date: cJanuary 1963
Image ID ABD_007

3. SALLIE Peter Light
Image ID ABD_021

4. MAUD - the dog belonged to one of the Daniel family from Colchester. It had eaten a hole in the mainsail.
Image ID ABD_025

5. SALLIE MN39
Image ID ABD_027

6. 1963 Winter, smacks IRIS and MAUD in the ice. The hulk of the PIONEER lies in the distance.
MAUD, on the right, was built in Maldon in 1889. She was MN21 ...
Date: cJanuary 1963
Image ID ABD_031

7. DAISY BELLE, John French
Image ID ABD_033

8. 2005 Oyster Dredging Match. Smack ELLEN CK222.
Photograph by Kim Kimberley.
Date: 11 September 2005
Image ID AMG_DGM_011

9. 2005 Mersea Oyster Dredging Match off West Mersea beach. Smack ELLEN CK222.
Photograph by Kim Kimberley.
Date: 11 September 2005
Image ID AMG_DGM_017

10. Smack KINGFISHER [ CK482 ], Rue Pullen at the tiller.
Image ID AN03_008_003

11. West Mersea - icy winter of 1947. Smack KINGFISHER. Photo by R.C. Pullen
Date: 23 January 1947
Image ID AN05_001_001

12. Frozen boats at West Mersea in the hard winter of 1963. Photo by R.C. Pullen
Date: 22 January 1963
Image ID AN05_004_003

13. JANMER and CK44 MAYFLOWER.
Image ID AN09_007_001

14. Mersea Regatta
Date: 1957
Image ID ATK_009

15. Mersea regatta 1957.
L-R David Stollery, Peter Pullen, Bill Baker, Arthur Bruce on the smack MARY of Colchester.
Date: 1957
Image ID ATK_011

16. Spratting - a photograph from Tollesbury, but no further information.
Image ID ATR_SPR_009

17. Smack 492CK S.W.H.
S.W.H. stands for Sid, Will and Harry Myall and the lady in the shrouds is probably Mrs Ann Myall, mother of Sid, Will and Harry, who used ...
Date: July 1924
Image ID ATR_SWH_001

18. Tollesbury fisherman Harry Myall at the tiller of family smack S.W.H., named for Sidney, William and Harry Myall - taken early 1900s.
Used in Smacks and ...
Date: 1924
Image ID ATR_SWH_003

19. Tollesbury fisherman Harry Myall on the left - Person at the tiller not known. Smack S.W.H. 492CK
Date: 1924
Image ID ATR_SWH_005

20. Woodrope, Tollesbury. Smack CK232 on the right. Postcard 71494, posted 23 July 1926.
Date: Before July 1926
Image ID ATR_TBY_009

21. Leigh bawley LO195 with a shrimp trawl aboard, in light airs
Image ID BF03_001_060_001

22. Rowhedge smacks. In The Northseamen Page 76
Image ID BF03_001_075_003

23. Smack CK318 under motor. ALBERTA. Built by Aldous Brightlingsea 1886. She had auxiliary engine fitted 29Dec1936 [John Collins / John White]

In the ...
Date: After 29 December 1936
Image ID BF03_001_083_001

24. Possibly CK174
Image ID BF03_001_084_001

25. Tollesbury oyster dredging. Laid up ships in background.
CK53 A.B.C. [This is the smack John Milgate dug out of Feldy]
From: LOCAL PHOTOS, POSTCARDS
Date: c1931
Image ID BF03_001_104_001

26. Smack CLARA Colchester, on the Hard at Brighlingsea
Image ID BF03_001_111_001

27. Brighlingsea skillinger HAWTHORN CK400 about to paint number in sail. She was formerly a cutter-rigged Harwich cod-smack.
Used in "Once upon a tide" page ...
Image ID BF03_001_115_001

28. WATER LILY (is written on back) smack.
Used in the Stowboaters page 46. Caption is:
In her last berth. Joe Hume's WATERLILY at Tollesbury. She was one ...
From: Blackwater photographs
Image ID BF03_004_001_001

29. A.D.C. (is written on back) and other smacks
From: Blackwater photographs
Image ID BF03_004_001_002

30. MN248 THISTLE (is written on back)
From: Blackwater photographs
Image ID BF03_004_001_003