Foulger’s Gat, pronounced ‘Fullgers’ is a swatchway across the Long Sand connecting the Black Deep to the Knock Deep. It has a least depth of around 3m and is now surrounded by the London Array windfarm, although still usable by yachts.
The first vessels of this type investigated turned out to be metal lighters: I’d been passing them for years assuming them to be concrete. It was through contacting Richard Lewis, who writes on the subject and has www.thecretefleet.com website, that the subject became clearer. Working from Northern Ireland he has identified perhaps all of the …
The fighting men who landed on D-Day needed to be fed so ten Landing Barge Kitchen (LBK) were built for the task. These were adapted from steel Thames Lighters by fitting two petrol engines and building the kitchen on the lighter. Crossing from Langstone Harbour to Sword Beach on D-Day, with the 35th LB Flotilla, …
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, London was the largest city in the world and road transport was powered by horse: fifty-thousand horses were required just to keep Victorian London’s public transport running, another ten thousand horses for hansom cabs, and countless more to substitute for white vans made around 300,000 horses producing, say, …
Dummy Landing Craft were built at Waldringfield and moored on the Deben before D-Day to deceive the Nazis. These were probably the largest craft ever to be in the river.
1801 Nelson in HMS Medusa with Capt. Gore is guided by Spence to scrape out to sea.