barge – Sailing By: Tales from our oceans, seas, coasts and inland waterways

Sailing races in Friesland, 1961

View this evocative silent British Pathé newsreel of a sailing contest on the Frisian Lakes in 1961. The film opens[…]

View archive footage of an English sea-going barge in this Pathé newsreel which opens with the commentator saying ‘the tall[…]

This short clip provides a glimpse of the building boom of Victorian London, with millions of bricks being brought from[…]

We’ve been following the progress of young boatbuilder, Ash Faire-Ring, based in Norfolk, England as he restores the Thames barge,[…]

This rare colour footage from the British Film Institute archive shows life on the River Thames in the 1930s. Its[…]

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

This Pathé archive film tells the story of Thames Sailing barge Pretoria which became a restaurant on the Thames in[…]

This extract tells the story of James Herbert, son of an agricultural labourer, who followed many local young men in[…]

Built in 1893 by John Howard of Maldon, Essex, SB Venta was originally named Jachin. In 1914, she sank off[…]

Humber Keels had square rig, and the Sloop was gaff fore-and-aft rigged but the hull is apparently the same. There[…]