1. Sailing barge LEOFLEDA at Maldon. She was built Harwich 1914 and owned by E. Marriage & Sons, East Mills, Colchester. Official No. 132906.

Comment De ...
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2. SUNBEAM at Maldon Quay around 1904 embarking the Mayor and Corporation on their annual inspection of the Blackwater. Photo from R.H.Perks, Faversham.
Date: c1904
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3. Maldon Regatta June 1895. DAWN is in frame left of centre. Francis Frith photograph 35655.
Date: June 1895
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4. Sailing barge EDITH MAY at Heybridge Basin.
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5. Barge ABERGAVENNY at Heybridge Basin 12.15pm 17 Mar 1889. She was built Aylesford, Kent in 1808. Photo from Nautical Photo Agency.
Date: 17 Mar 1889
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6. The sailing barge DILIGENT (1877) lying in Heybridge Basin in the 1930s. Beyond can be seen the stern and wheel of UNITY.
DILIGENT became a lighter in 1935 ...
Date: 1930s
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7. The LORD WARDEN at Salcott unloading flints, c1920. Her skipper at this time was Jack Spitty.
Used in Down Tops'l page 65 - see this for more information, ...
Date: c1920
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8. Motor Barge PORTLIGHT and Sailing Barge SPINAWAY C in the River Blackwater off Bradwell Power Station. Essex County Standard photograph.
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9. Loaded barge going down the Colne past Wivenhoe. Fingringhoe Ballast Wharf ahead of her.
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10. GEORGE SMEED at Fingringhoe Mill
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11. GEORGE SMEED at Fingringhoe Mill
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12. River Medway (?) and tug KESTON. Photo from Barry Pearce.
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13. Barge warping at Walton Beach. For details of this trade, see Down Tops'l.
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14. Barge tacking up to Battlesbridge. Burnham on Crouch from the water. River Crouch. Barge is VICTOR or VICTORY of London.
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15. Barge in Harwich Harbour with jib set and bowsprit up. Copyright Douglas Norman, Brightlingsea.
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16. Sailing barge GLADYS new at Harwich in 1900. The back of photo marked H Cann.
Date: 1900
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17. Pin Mill, on the River Orwell, with its inn, the Butt and Oyster. Barges DANNEBROG Official No. 109881, HERBERT GORDON Official No. 94575 and the hulk of JESS. ...
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18. Ipswich Lock c1890. L to R MALVINA of Rochester, UNITY of Rochester, VICTORIA Ipswich, CARRIE LOUISE of Shoreham (boomie). From a photo in the Orwell arms ...
Date: c1890
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19. Barges MAY and KIMBERLEY loading grain ex ABRAHAM RYDBERG in Ipswich Dock.
There is a similar photograph in Down Tops'l, page 129.
Date: July 1939
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20. Sailing barge THALATTA at Gorleston.
Date: October 1977
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21. Sailing barge RAYBEL Official No. 145058 at Great Yarmouth.
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22. ALF EVERARD in dry dock. Is this the dry dock at Fellows at Yarmouth - where the ALF EVERARD was built ?
ALF EVERARD built 1925 by Fellows at Great ...
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23. Sailing barge PHOENICIAN at Great Yarmouth.
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24. Sailing barge SARA. Steamer EGYPTIAN --- probably 2,866 grt built 1920 Official No. 143646.
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25. Barges ?, KING, D.E.F. (?), SIRDAR (?). Hulk of steamer in right background. Location unknown.
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26. Sailing barge NORTHDOWN at West Bay.
NORTHDOWN was built Whitstable in 1924. In 1991, she went to Port Musee, Douarnenez, but by 2016 was in a mud berth on ...
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27. Sailing barge FAVORITE of Rochester. Photo from Books Afloat, Weymouth
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28. Sailing barge THYRA in Doig's drydock, Grimsby, c1962. Photo by George T Wood, who gives the history of the drydock in an accompanying letter
Date: c1962
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29. Barge THYRA at Grimsby. Photo by George T Wood.
Date: c1962
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30. Sailing barge THYRA in J.S. Doig's drydock at Grimsby
Date: c1962
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