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- The Thames sailing barge (TSB) with its readily identifiable sprit-sail rig was a great work horse of Thames-Medway and East coast ports in the pre-war days. It's recorded that sixteen Thames Sailing Barges set out to do their bit in the summer of 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo.
- Thames Barges & the Dunkirk Little Ships in Operation Dynamo
- Before the coming of the railways if you wanted to quickly and easily move large amounts of cargo you needed sail power. Whether that was shipping goods inland from an international port or moving products to a seaport for overseas sale. On the Mersey that sail power was provided my a Mersey Flat, a barge which evolved to deal with the specific conditions of working on the river.
- In celebration of International Museum Day, we look back at our collaborations with Mersea Museum over the last few years and announce a brand new project for volunteers!
- Britain at Low Tide (BaLT) regularly reached audiences of over a million people, demonstrating that foreshore archaeology and the stories it reveals about our island history are fascinating to the British public. Six months since the last episode aired (and the public was left high and dry for its intertidal archaeology fix), we are getting back in touch with the team to revisit some highlights.
Dunkirk 'Little Ships' & the Thames Barge
26/05/2020 | Gustav Milne
Operation Dynamo 80th anniversary
24/05/2020 | Gustav Milne
Work horse of the Mersey
20/05/2020 | Andy Sherman
A Timeline to Pass the Time
18/05/2020 | Danielle Newman
Britain at Low Tide revisited
14/05/2020 | Oliver Hutchinson
