The Great Western
24 November, 2021From the brush of... In the development of merchant and naval shipping, the ocean-going paddle steamer was ultimately a dead…Big Ships Need Big Tugs
25 October, 2021From the brush of... “Big ships need big tugs” said Sir William Hoy, Chairman of the South African Railways and…Alondra in the Mersey
26 September, 2021From the brush of... When I was about 11 I started reading “Sea Breezes”. At that time the most interesting…Royal Archer
10 July, 2021From the brush of... Almost forgotten nowadays is the fleet of small passenger-cargo vessels running regular services around the UK…Yellow Peril
28 April, 2021From the brush of... As a kid in Great Yarmouth, the coasters of F T Everard were a familiar sight.…Saga Ruby
12 March, 2021From the brush of... Delivered in 1973 for Norwegian American Line, and originally named “Vistafjord”, the “Saga Ruby” was the…Larpool
24 January, 2021From the brush of... The “Larpool” was a tramp steamer built in 1924 by Pickersgill’s in Sunderland for Headlam &…Sirdhana on the Hooghly River
19 December, 2020From the brush of... The Apcar company was founded in 1819 by the Armenian Apcar brothers. Originally based in Bombay,…The Tale of “Teapot”
5 December, 2020First published in the NWT Journal, Spring 1989 by “Leveret” (David Bray) The wherry lay on the White Swan quay in…Random Jottings of a Skipper
23 November, 2020First published in the NWT Journal, Autumn 1986 Author: Admiral Elsan (David Bray) I would like to take space in these pages to…
