Category: Culture: songs, stories, photography and art

Traditions and culture relevant to the world of real boating and sailors

Christmas on a lightship

BFI lightship at Christmas film

Christmas on a lightship, many years ago.

Peter Dawson sings The Fisherman of England

Briscoe: Oyster Grounds, Clewlines and Buntlines, Man Overboard and The Heaving Line

‘But those sailor-men have no truer friend than Arthur Briscoe, who so faithfully interprets their lives at sea.’