Friends of Maritime Heritage Trust event, Sat 30 June
Richmond – Historic and ceremonial river craft and gentlemen’s yachts. The day will include behind the scenes visits and traditional boat trips on the Thames. Find out more…
Category: Classic motor vessels
Admiral’s Cruise, 23+24 June 2018
Once a year, rain or shine, a very mixed group of Medway leisure craft led by local fishing boats, accompanied by police RIBs and sometimes the Sheerness lifeboat, makes its way up and down the...
Queenborough Harbour 3rd Classic Yacht & Motor Boat Festival, 29-30 September 2018
The festival is open to any boat, large or small, designed or built before 1970 – wood, steel, aluminium, fibreglass, ferro cement, sail, power, steam or other, the bigger the variety of boats the...
MT Kent going to Ipswich
SE Tugs have booked the 1948 motor tug Kent into the Maritime Festival in Ipswich on the weekend of 18-19 August. The Ipswich Maritime Festival features heritage vessels, tugs, tall ships etc and takes...
PS Waverley visits the Medway
PS Waverley, the last passenger-carrying sea-going paddle steamer in the world, visited the Medway on Saturday as part of her annual round Britain cruise. The historic tug Touchstone was among the local boats that went...
Help wanted to raise old tug, 12 Oct
MSBA fan Mark Thorne, known to many as the first mate on X-Pilot, has acquired the classic Tom Pudding tug “Water Haigh” which is currently on the mud near Strood Pier. He is requesting...
Queenborough Harbour Closed for Classic Boat Show, 9 & 10 Sept
PLEASE NOTE: Queenborough Harbour will be closed to visiting boats from Noon Friday 8th to 6pm Sunday 10 September to accommodate the classic boat event. We hope to see you there, but kindly request...
Brief outing for Medway Queen
The “Heroine of Dunkirk” was briefly towed out of her berth yesterday to allow the minesweeper Tongham to access Gillingham Pier.
Don’t miss the SS George Stephenson, this week only at Chatham
MSBA Chairman Brian Corbett was treated to a personal tour of the indescribably weird and wonderful steamship SS George Stephenson. The beautiful vessel is the brainchild of eccentric Dutch owner Vaas Stik who used...
Chatham Maritime Food and Drink Festival, 27-29 May
Chatham Maritime Food and Drink Festival will take place over the bank holiday weekend on 27-29 May. It’s a free-to-enter three-day event featuring local artisan food and drink producers, live music in the bandstand,...
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