Above: Tankers laid up in River Blackwater. POLAR MAID on the right, arrived with a cargo of whale oil 26 May 1954 and stayed waiting for the value of the cargo to improve. She left 20 April 1955
The tanker in the foreground is thought to be the MARACAIBO, laid up in the Blackwater 27 April 1954 to 1 December 1954. Date: cAugust 1954. Source: Mersea Museum / Wendy Brady |