Category: Barges and wherries

Barges and wherries and other working boats originally for carrying cargoes

More photos from Jeff C provide an opportunity for detective work

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Jeff Cole’s barge yacht photo

 

Jeff Cole’s ferries photo Jeff Cole’s steam ship photo Jeff Cole’s gaff-rigged yacht and lighthouse photo

 

Jeff Cole’s second torpedo boat photo Jeff Cole’s first torpedo boat photo

Some more of Jeff’s photos present some further opportunities for interesting detective work, and include a large barge yacht, two ferries, a converted wooden wall ship with cut-down masts, a large gaff-rigged yacht passing a lighthouse, and a couple of motor torpedo boats.

They make an interesting challenge for a dull Wednesday morning. Can anyone shed any light on them? Jeff suggests that the torpedo boat enthusiasts might like to reference the torpedo boat section of the www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk website, and that another section of the same site might reveal the identity of the wooden wall, which could well have been a training ship.

Thanks once again Jeff! To see some more photos from Jeff’s collection click here.

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Subscribe to comments – intheboatshed.net is now a little more social

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We’d love to have more comments and discussion here at intheboatshed.net – social networking is now such a big part of many people’s daily life, that we think regular intheboatshedders should also have better ways of communicating with each other.

A small step in that direction today is a gizmo that allows readers to subscribe to comments – when you make a comment now, you will be able to subscribe to particular comment streams, so that you know when comments are added to a post of particular interest. I’d guess this will be useful to anyone interested in knowing about responses to a comment they’ve made.

Another innovation that many will find easy to follow is the Recent comments box in the left-hand column. So get commenting, and come back to see what the others are saying!

And still another is the introduction of Gravatars – little 80 by 80 pixel images that you can use to represent yourself when you comment. It could be a photo or drawing of yourself, or your boat, or whatever – but please play nicely children! Go to http://gravatar.com to set yours up.

Why not tell us what you think of all this using the comments link below? Is it a step in the right direction – or is it pants?

Gavin

Fabulous shipwreck photos

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Abandoned tugs at the Staten Island ship graveyard

Abandoned tugs at the Staten Island ship graveyard. Click on the photo to go to the source

A few days ago David Nabors put up a post linking to a gallery of riveting photos of the Staten Island ship graveyard. Follow the link from his Neversealand weblog.

Looking at this striking collection, I was reminded of the wreck of the SS Montgomery near the mouth of our Medway Estuary. This is where we sail, and naturally, the thought that 1400 tons of high explosive could conceivably fire off and flatten the surrounding docks, towns and villages lends a certain edge to the atmosphere of the place.

For the official story on the Montgomery, click here. They say that after all this time, we should be pretty safe, and I hope they’re right. There’s a nice piece on it at the BBC Essex website, and some photos near the bottom of this page.

If you’re looking for fantasy and entertainment, this page has some scraps of rumour about why it was never made properly safe, and even a writer’s film script synopsis.

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