..as main reason went was for more pics of old hulked #ThamesBarge - 'Ernest and Ada'. Built Paglesham, Essex, 1865. Villagers say sank in the '30s, but I've just discovered Society for Sailing Barge Research records have loss as "c.1940".
(A date discrepancy birders would never put up with ๐)
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Thames Barges. Maldon, Essex.
Argie Bargie.
Thames Barges moored on Maldon Quay, Essex, England.
#boats #barges #thames #traditional #thamesbarge #photography #art #shipping #history #picture
Street photography - Maintaining a Thames Barge, Maldon. #street #streetphotography #photography #blackandwhitephotography #thamesbarge #maldon
Sailing away - Thames sailing barges Wyvenhoe & Niagara
#ThamesBarge #SailingBarge #Wyvenhoe #Niagara #Colne #Essex #Essexcoast #barge
A calm day at Maldon quay
#Maldon #Blackwater #Essex #MaldonQuay #ThamesBarge ##barges #photography
#ThamesBarge #Spritsail 1892 #Dunkirk #DunkirkLittleShips #Whitstable #Kent #barge #SBGreta
www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/register/206...
Sailing into a new week
#sailing #ThamesBarge #Essex #Photography
A decorative framed print of a Thames Barge yacht on the horizon of a glorious blue sea
A marvellous piece of mini wall art would make a very different gift this Christmas cardsbymormorjan.etsy.com/listing/794641โฆ @mhhsbd.bsky.social #SMILEtt23 @craftbizparty.bsky.social #thamesbarge #framedprint
2024 season over for #ThamesBarge 'Mirosa'; sails down and stowed before the rains.
Great day out, finishing w. yet more hot tea, and scones straight out of oven.
Shared galley with a stowaway migrant just found by crew up-high in rigging (Convolvulus hawk-moth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrius_...).
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The Iron Wharf tug.
#ThamesBarge 'Mirosa' was towed up the winding Faversham creek to her Iron Wharf boatyard winter berth y/day.
Tugs and barges have worked together to navigate this creek since the days of the brickyards a century ago.
www.favershameye.co.uk/post/the-iro...
Brent Geese arriving back for winter.
The Swale, #northKentMarshes, 20/9,
#ThamesBarge 'Mirosa'.
#LowCarbonBirding under sail,
#KentBirding
All in a day's work of a #ThamesBarge first mate:
Fetching wood.
Fetching passengers and crew.
Catching a cat(nap).
Fetching the tug to tow the barge in.
Catching up on sea-tales with a fellow barge-dog as pulling up in port.
(Swale estuary/ Faversham creek, Kent, 20/9)
#dogs
20/9 - had a day afloat - this year's last day under full sail for #ThamesBarge Mirosa, before berthing up for winter. thamesbarge.org.uk/boats/mirosa/
(Horse Sands, The Swale, Kent).