beverley yates – Page 2 – Sailing By: Tales from our coasts and inland waterways

Round Land’s End in a ‘tubby little ship’: 1946

This extract is from an article by Audrey Faith Parker, ‘An eventful trip in a Tubby Little Ship’, originally published[…]

This ‘Instructional film’ from the Pathé Archive provides a clearly-presented overview of trawling in the 1940s, as steam began to[…]

2020 will see the 80th anniversary of ‘Operation Dynamo’ when over 300,000 troops were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk.[…]

During his travels, Daniel Defoe finds himself at Aust, awaiting a ferry to cross the Severn Estuary from Gloucestershire, England[…]

James Wharram recounts how he became the first person to design and build a catamaran, sailing it across the Atlantic[…]

This Pathé Archive takes us back to 1929-31 with footage of trawlers and fishing boats going out of a harbour[…]

The tidal range of the Bristol Channel has always been a challenge to shipping approaching from the Atlantic, and conditions[…]

In this extract by Daniel Defoe, he reflects on the town of Plymouth, noting its importance as a safe anchorage[…]

After a detailed description of the sail plan for the Swansea Bay pilot boats, Eden Northmore Jones tells the tale[…]

View a fascinating, compelling newsreel, without any commentary, showing large sailing barges with full sails racing in Friesland, Holland. We[…]