1. MICHALAKIS aground on the mudflats opposite Empress Avenue at West Mersea. She had broken adrift on 14th February 1958 and was refloated by tugs on 16th ... Date: c15 February 1958 Image ID AA000540 |
2. Newsprint carrier MARKLAND laid up in the River Blackwater Date: c1963 Image ID AA000760 |
3. Looking towards the Tollesbury shore. Ships laid up in the River Blackwater in the icy winter of 1963. The boats from Mersea were unable to get out to the ships ... Date: 1 February 1963 Image ID AA000850 |
4. Ships laid up in River Blackwater
Nearest PHORKYSS, and behind her STANTHORPE.
PHORKYSS was laid up in the River from 28 May 1960 to 20 October ... Date: cJune 1960 Image ID AJ01_003 |
5. Tanker CHARTSMAN taken by Brightlingsea photographer Alf Jefferies. Probably in the Colne off Brightlingsea, loaded and inward bound for Colchester where she ... Date: c1960 Image ID AJ01_201 |
6. Troopship EMPIRE PARKESTON at Hook of Holland. She was on a regular run from Parkeston Quay, Harwich.
She was built 1f930 by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, ... Image ID AJ01_311 |
7. Rue Pullen on PEDRO on a trip to view the ships in the river. The GOTHIC is in the background. Sept 1955 is written on the back of the photograph but newspaper ... Date: September 1954 Image ID AN01_061 |
8. Rue Pullen on PEDRO on a trip to view laid up ships in the River Blackwater. The back of the photograph says Sept 1955 but another photo dates it to 1954 Date: September 1954 Image ID AN01_063 |
9. Rue Pullen's trip boat PEDRO. This is the first PEDRO. Photo on Air Ministry paper so just after WW2. Date: c1948 Image ID AN01_071 |
10. Joan Pullen on PEDRO I. Poster on bulkhead for Mersea - Bradwell Motor Boat Service. Date: c1948 Image ID AN02_002_011 |
11. Launch of Ru Pullen's PEDRO II CK9 at Wyatt's. Ed Wyatt standing in centre of boat. Photograph from Regal Studios, West Mersea.
John Milgate helped ... Date: 28 May 1949 Image ID AN02_003_007 |
12. Rue Pullen. PEDRO. Image ID AN03_018_001 |
13. Rue Pullen and PEDRO. Barge Match Date: 1966 Image ID AN03_025_001 |
14. Boxing Day 1949. Wormell's boat with Mr Wormell at the wheel. He was a garage owner from Sudbury.[Ron Green and John Milgate] Date: 26 December 1949 Image ID AN04_003_005 |
15. PEDRO. Image ID AN04_015_013 |
16. Boats in the ice at West Mersea Hard in the winter of 1963.
SEADRIFT (a converted ship's lifeboat), PEDRO, Hec Stoker's EVELYN Date: cFebruary 1963 Image ID AN05_004_007 |
17. Icy creeks looking across to Feldy. CK62 EVELYN owned by Hector Stoker in centre and PEDRO on the right. Photo R.C. Pullen Date: 22 January 1963 Image ID AN05_006_001 |
18. Rue Pullen PEDRO II. Image ID AN05_016_001 |
19. Rue Pullen, PEDRO 1 on the Causeway at West Mersea Hard. Image ID AN05_017_005 |
20. West Mersea. 1. Emily Pullen, 2. Doreen Dodds, 3. Rue PUllen, 4. Tom Dodds Date: 1951 Image ID AN06_003_011 |
21. Liner GOTHIC laid up in River Blackwater. Photograph from Rue Pullen. Date: September 1954 Image ID AN06_008_019 |
22. Liner GOTHIC laid up in River Blackwater. Photograph from Rue Pullen. Date: September 1954 Image ID AN06_008_023 |
23. WILD AUK in the River Blackwater Date: cJuly 1975 Image ID ASH022 |
24. SELENGA - built by Forrestt Wivenhoe in 1896 for the Russian Amur flotilla.
Photograph from the late Ivan Chernikov, used in his book "1000 years of ... Image ID AVM_001 |
25. SELENGA - built by Forrestt Wivenhoe in 1896 for the Russian Amur flotilla.
Photograph from the late Ivan Chernikov, used in his book "1000 years of ... Image ID AVM_003 |
26. L to R GLORIANA, STARTLED FAWN, ALICE WATTS, ANTELOPE, HESPER in the Type. This picture is in The Big Barges P133, titled "Colchester gasworks colliers on the ... Image ID BF03_001_047_001 |
27. LUCY RICHMOND of Maldon. Built Ipswich 1875, Official No. 68313. From: LOCAL PHOTOS, POSTCARDS Image ID BF03_001_050_001 |
28. ELIZAH ketch Image ID BF03_001_052_001 |
29. Water mill Walton on Naze Image ID BF03_001_064_001 |
30. Oyster dredger PYEFLEET CK28 and Police launch EDWARD VII. From Colchester and Essex Museums.
EDWARD VII was built Forrestt 1902 and converted to motor ... Image ID BF03_001_108_002 |