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
The English East Coast town of Deal was well known to mariners in the 18th and 19th centuries. In this extract, Daniel Defoe describes the disastrous… Read More »Loss of ships on the Kentish shore, 1703
With the development of the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch Republic built up a lucrative trade with Asia. They created trading posts, forts and… Read More »Battle of Sole Bay, 1672
This extract combines an evocative view of Portsmouth from the open sea, painted by Dominic Serres in the 18th century and a description of the… Read More »Naval security, Portsmouth, 1727
Many ships have been lost off the westernmost rocks of the Isles of Scilly, one of the most well known disasters being the loss of… Read More »Bishop Rock and Wolf Rock: on passage to Scilly
This Pathé archive has evocative footage of yachts, with English commentary, racing at an international regatta in Sweden 1930. Participants include Uffa Fox on ‘Vigilant’… Read More »Sandhamn sailing regatta, 1930
This post is an extract from the log of ‘Clytie’. Her owners, Clifford and Daisy Paterson, grandparents of the current skipper, were anchored in the… Read More »Aground on the River Ore, 1923