Sailing By: Tales from our coasts and inland waterways

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Storm off Winterton Ness, 1692

Daniel Defoe describes a terrible disaster when 200 sailing colliers were lost off the east[…]

Heybridge and Maldon on the River Blackwater, Essex, have a long maritime history from defending[…]

The first East Coast Race, held on 20 July, 1963, attracted 27 starters on a[…]

Daniel Defoe takes to his boat from Manningtree to Ipswich by ‘Maningtre-Water’ and ‘Ipswich-Water’ and[…]

The small Essex village of Tollesbury has a fascinating maritime heritage. The village sign and[…]

‘Cruises of the Joan’ is from a delightful series, the Lodestar Library, featuring ‘interesting, the[…]

This silent documentary archive captures the story of the oyster, from the smacksmen’s baskets in[…]

‘Albion’ was built as a Norfolk wherry and carried cargo on the inland waterways of[…]