The Happy Mariner
My name is Anthony Edwards, known to my friends as Tony. My book, 'PAID TO LIVE THE DREAM' is about my experiences at sea, and there's nothing like being afloat to generate experiences! Extremes of fear and exhaustion contrasted with extremes of well being and humour. They are all there in equal measure. Over the…
Bucket Dredger Hope at Work
Here she is seen working inside a harbour, she discharged into hopper barges on both sides, the tug will tow the barges out to sea to where they discharged. This is how harbours were kept clear back in the 1930's
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Claxton Ship Builders and Engineers
Claxton & Co. Ltd. were a well known and highly skilled engineering company in Ramsgate. In 1936 they occupied the Clock House at the Harbour and were carrying out ship repairs on the slipway. They also had stores at 7 Military Road. This photo is dated September 25th 1939 and was taken outside Merrie England in Marina Esplanade. A couple of weeks later in October 1939 Merrie England was commissioned as a naval shore base known as HMS Fervent. Do you know anyone in the picture? More photos…
Bucket Dredger Hope
The bucket dredger Hope seen here hauled out for repairs clearly showing the loop of buckets with the wheel they went round on the lower left of her
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The Oosterschelde schooner from the Netherlands is in Ramsgate Harbour at the moment, some of the crew/passengers were in the bookshop today and they said they are sailing tomorrow morning, so I popped out this evening to take a photo. The main part of this post is 350 photos I took when the Tall Ships visited Ramsgate in 2007 the file popped up when saving today's this is the link to the photos The Belgian before is also part of the folder. Here in the bookshop people have mostly been…
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The Oosterschelde schooner from the Netherlands is in Ramsgate Harbour at the moment, some of the crew/passengers were in the bookshop today and they said they are sailing tomorrow morning, so I popped out this evening to take a photo. The main part of this post is 350 photos I took when the Tall Ships visited Ramsgate in 2007 the file popped up when saving today's this is the link to the photos The Belgian before is also part of the folder. Here in the bookshop people have mostly been…