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Actions Displays	Coasting Barge Master Remove from selection Add to selection TitleCoasting Barge Master Author A. W. Roberts (author)‎ Archie White (illustrator)‎ Place of publicationLondon PublisherEdward Arnold & Co. Year of publication1949 Pagination192 p. IllustrationsIllus., maps, black and white drawings and diagrams Dimensions14.7 x 22.2 cm Materialbook Class numberVK140 .R6 1949 Subjectcoastwise shipping, merchant mariners, barges, Great Britain, sailing barges, seafaring life Geographical keywordUnited Kingdom This book is about the Thames sailing barges with their typical sprit-sail rig, which are the last survivors of the coastal wind-driven trading ships, and still hold their own against power vessels in the Estuary trade along the coast from Norfolk to Dorset and beyond. They have bred a race of hardy sailormen with the art and watchfulness acquired by experience in handling a ship under sail in tidal waters and off the coast in heavy gales.

TitleCoasting Barge Master

Author

Place of publicationLondon

Year of publication1949

Pagination192 p.

IllustrationsIllus., maps, black and white drawings and diagrams

Dimensions14.7 x 22.2 cm

Materialbook

Class numberVK140 .R6 1949

Geographical keywordUnited Kingdom

This book is about the Thames sailing barges with their typical sprit-sail rig, which are the last survivors of the coastal wind-driven trading ships, and still hold their own against power vessels in the Estuary trade along the coast from Norfolk to Dorset and beyond. They have bred a race of hardy sailormen with the art and watchfulness acquired by experience in handling a ship under sail in tidal waters and off the coast in heavy gales.