Holiday week in Holland 1962
In this silent, archive newsreel, we see holiday crowds as spectators and participants in a yachting event. There’s a campsite for families and, as the… Read More »Holiday week in Holland 1962
In this silent, archive newsreel, we see holiday crowds as spectators and participants in a yachting event. There’s a campsite for families and, as the… Read More »Holiday week in Holland 1962
This fascinating old silent movie footage from the Pathe archive is subtitled “A glance at the old Dutch Schuyts”. The intertitle explains that for nearly… Read More »Dutch eel boats in the Thames, 1931
Sit down and watch this full length video, transferred from the original 16mm colour movie tapes of a two-year circumnavigation undertaken in 1965. Five young… Read More »‘Sandefjord’ her voyage around the world: 1965
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This Christmas post is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson who was born in Edinburgh, 1850, son of a lighthouse engineer. He loved to travel,… Read More »Christmas at Sea
Ferocious storms battered the English coasts in October, 1880. In this extract, reported in the ‘Scarborough Mercury’, we read about the heroic rescues undertaken by… Read More »Ferocious storms and fearless lifeboat crews, 1880
This extract is from an article by Audrey Faith Parker, ‘An eventful trip in a Tubby Little Ship’, originally published in Yachting Monthly, November 1947.… Read More »From Beaumaris to Weymouth in a ‘tubby little ship’, 1947
We hear from the skipper of ‘Vlieter’, a Dutch vessel taking part in the OGA50 Round Britain Challenge, 2013. Arriving in Chatham, as she completes… Read More »Chatham and the Dutch: 1667 – 1967
Tim Magennis of the Dublin Bay OGA reflects on the worst Irish Sea disaster which occurred on October 10, 1918. No more efficient system of… Read More »Sinking of the ‘RMS Leinster’, 1918