31. OCEANTEAM INSTALLER from the owner's website www.oceanteam.nl. She arrived in the River Blackwater 7 April 2009.
Image ID AA003230

32. The hard winter of 1962 - 1963. Ice and snow on Coast Road by the Victory.
Date: cJanuary 1963
Image ID ABD_001

33. 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

34. The hard winter of 1962 - 1963. Ice at the Nothe. There was a school in the northern end of the Nothe cottages during the war.
Date: cJanuary 1963
Image ID ABD_005

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

36. Ice around the houseboats in the hard winter 1962 - 1963. MEG MERRILIES and beyond her FATHOM ex DOROTHY, a former Admiralty ammunition barge.
Date: cJanuary 1963
Image ID ABD_013

37. Ice in the hard winter 1962 - 1963. PORT ERROLL, BOADICEA, VERA.
PORT ERROLL Official No. 161504, built Blackwell 1904, converted RNLI lifeboat, owner E. ...
Date: cJanuary 1963
Image ID ABD_015

38. Froggie
Image ID ABD_017

39. WMTR watersports
Image ID ABD_019

40. SALLIE Peter Light
Image ID ABD_021

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

42. SALLIE MN39
Image ID ABD_027

43. TD (Tom D'Wit) Ron Bishop, Douglas Stoker, Andy Muir
Image ID ABD_029

44. 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

45. DAISY BELLE, John French
Image ID ABD_033

46. The BUCCANEER, owned by Sid Hewes. Built Brightlingsea, same builder as BOY GEORGE. Sail number 1033 41.
Image ID ABD_035

47. Round the Island Race. BUCCANEER, WHEEZY ANNA.
Image ID ABD_037

48. Oyster laying for sale, House Propert, Smacks, auction E.J. Craske 23 Feb 1875.
Lot 1 Stone House
Smacks THE SARAH, THE BROTHERS, THE ...
Date: 23 February 1875
Image ID ABD_039

49. Pat Mead's ex lifeboat on the left and Allan Bird on his DOGGER BANK CK12 on the right.
Date: 2022
Image ID ABD_BK1_033_001

50. Allan Bird's DOGGER BANK CK12.
Bought c1963
"She had already been used for dredging, trawling, winkling and herring drifting She had also suffered a ...
Date: c1964
Image ID ABD_BK1_039_001

51. Allan Bird's oyster skiff MYSTERY. She was bought by Allan Feb 1982 from Jeffrey Wass and had been CK59.
Date: c1983
Image ID ABD_BK1_073_001

52. Allan Bird's NATIVE No. 1, CK12
Built at Botley near Southampton, Allan and David Stoker went down to see their work in 1980. Allan ordered one and David ...
Date: cApril 1983
Image ID ABD_BK1_076_001

53. Allan Bird Towing a lighter out to a vessel laid up in the River Blackwater. The vessel is the QUEEN which was in the River 10 July 1983 to 20 December 1983
Date: cAugust 1983
Image ID ABD_BK1_077_001

54. Herring drifting on NATIVE CK12 (No. 1)
Date: c1984
Image ID ABD_BK1_080_001

55. Allan Bird's NATIVE No.2 CK12
Built by Offshore Steel Boats at Hull - the first of what became six similar boats for Mersea owners. NATIVE was started ...
Date: 1988
Image ID ABD_BK1_094_001

56. Allan Bird's NATIVE No. 2 CK12, pair trawling.
Date: 2022
Image ID ABD_BK1_100_001

57. Dredger MARLIN P668 from Portsmouth. Bought by Allan Bird c1995, she became the third NATIVE CK12.
Date: c1995
Image ID ABD_BK1_112_001

58. Allan Bird's oyster dredger NATIVE CK12 No. 3., formerly P668 MARLIN. Bought by Allan in 1995 and given major refit by Ralph Woods on Burma Road. June 1991 ...
Date: C1997
Image ID ABD_BK1_115_001

59. Heavy fall of snow in front of West Mersea Hall, looking across to the Hall Barn.
Alan says "I think the big snowfall was probably one that fell in 1956, ...
Date: 1956
Image ID ABK_011

60. View from the garden of West Mersea Hall. The sweet shop that was Woodwards' Stores can be sen in the distance, as can one of the buttress towers marking the ...
Date: c1956
Image ID ABK_013