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Sailorman a Bargemaster’s Story
Captain Jim Uglow MBE
1975
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Felton’s Sandwich Sailing Barges
Author Margaret Simmons Sandwich Local History Society NEW Over 100 years ago a local family business was established which constructed the last cargo carrying sailing vessels to be built in Sandwich, an enterprise in shipbuilding that was to last just eleven years. Amongst the yard’s output was a sailing barge that was£4.00 Add to basket -
Coasting Bargemaster
Author Bob Roberts NEW First published in 1949, shortly after the conflict covered in part of this book, Coasting Bargemaster has been ‘in print’ for many of the years since, such is the quality of both the story and the writing. Though fast dwindling, the sailing barges still had their fair£7.50 Add to basket -
Last of the Sailorman
Author Bob Roberts NEW The last of all to carry a commercial cargo under sail alone was Bob Roberts, his command the coasting barge Cambria. He writes in the introduction ‘Much of this book has been written in a barge’s cabin, rolling at anchor in Yarmouth Roads, stormbound under the lee£7.50 Add to basket