Adventures of the Blackgang

How to Identify Traditional British Fishing Boats                                    

Britain’s coastlines are dotted with cobles and fifies, prawners and smacks – but which boat is which? Here is our identification guide to traditional fishing boats

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high tide and low tide in great britain. photographs by michael marten

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The Duchess of Kent in Greenwich, 1941

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(George Hare’s Caroline Memorabilia)

BBC – Radio Rebels Go Straight: Pirate Station Radio Caroline Finally Gets a License

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On This Day in History 1994, the English Channel tunnel opens connecting Britain and the European mainland.

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Funnels and House Flags of British & Foreign Shipping; from Modern Wonder, 1938

British Waterways - South Eastern Division : a detailed itinerary and sectional plans, Pyramid Press, c1960 showing Bow Locks on the River Lee Navigation 

The River Tyne - A Great Industrial River : issued by the Tyneside Industrial Development Conference, c1930 - cover by V L Danvers

Joseph Mallord William Turner - Bell Rock Lighthouse (1819)

The Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the eastern coast of Angus, Scotland, is the world’s oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse. It was built between 1807 and 1810 by Robert Stevenson on the Bell Rock (also known as Inchcape) in the North Sea, 11 miles (18 km) east of the Firth of Tay. more

Poster: Brighton and South Coast Railway

Isle of Man Steam Packet Company; SS Empress Queen (vintage postcard)

Established in 1830, IoMSPCo. is the oldest continuously operating passenger shipping company in the world

A prison ship, often more precisely termed prison hulk, is a vessel (usually unseaworthy) salvaged as a prison, often to hold convicts or with the British, often civilian internees, awaiting transportation to a penal colony. This practice was popular with the British government in the 18th and 19th centuries.

During the American War of Independence, more American Colonists died as prisoners of war on British prison ships, through intentional neglect, than died in every battle of the war combined.

This is a cross-section of a hulk called the Defence, published in Henry Mayhew’s The Criminal Prisons of London, in 1862.

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