SB Pudge
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SB Pudge is a wooden Thames sailing barge, built in Rochester, Kent, England in 1922. Her hull was pitch pine on oak frame. She was originally spritsail rigged with bowsprit. An auxiliary oil engine m
Pudge on the Medway Estuary in 2017
Little Ships of Dunkirk
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The Little Ships of Dunkirk consisted of over 800 naval and requisitioned vessels, and small, private boats, that sailed from Ramsgate in England to Dunkirk in northern France between 26 May and 4 Jun
SB Pudge
…Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, into London. The first major civilian maritime event of the Second World War was the Dunkirk evacuation, in which hundreds of small ships rescued Allied soldiers from beaches in northern France. Like many of the sailing barge fleet, Pudge was requisitioned in May 1940 whilst in Tilbury…
PS Medway Queen, 2016
Walmer lifeboat Charles Dibdin
SB Ena lying in the mud at Hoo, 2018
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