National Maritime Museum Cornwall small boat register goes online
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] St Agnes lighthouse, Scilly Isles – see the news about Troze below The National Maritime Museum Cornwall’s small boats register has gone online – and we’re all invited to...
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[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Relieving the shift on Bishop Rock Lighthouse 1969 (thanks to Gibsons of Scilly); Portland Bill Lighthouse, Dorset (thanks to Trinity House); a storm lashes Longships...
View ArticleSpider T sails from Keadby Lock on Humber to Arbroath – the full story
Mal Nicholson and the Spider T crew will have more to chew on than most when they consider their summer’s adventures, having sailed a 1920s Humber sloop from Keadby to Arbroath and back. The purpose of...
View ArticleA requiem for the Souter light foghorn
The Souter lighthouse foghorn in action The Guardian has this remarkable report this morning: ‘A requiem has been written to mark the passing from use of the last of the UK’s working foghorns, which...
View ArticleThe lighthouse inspection, 1963
Silent film of a lighthouse inspection made in 1963 by the Pharos VIII. The main duties of this Northern Lighthouse Board ship included delivering of stores and supplies, buoy-working and the statutory...
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