Cruising Association / Dinghy cruising / History/archaeology / Motor cruising / Talk or lecture / Yacht cruising
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 8 February, 2021 · Last modified 24 February, 2021
The Cruising Association Kent Section’s brilliant “winter warmer” talks, organised by Clifford Mickleburgh, have not stopped for Covid. All of us, CA member or not, can enjoy them online. This month’s talk is by...
Classic motor vessels / Classic vessels / History/archaeology
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 4 February, 2021
Everything is still locked down by winter and the pandemic but the Medway Queen Preservation Society has ambitious plans for the coming year. All dependent, of course, on Covid and in some respects the...
Classic vessels / History/archaeology / Queenborough / Sailing barges / Swale
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 24 January, 2021 · Last modified 1 February, 2021
The historic Queenborough Harbour is to be linked with Milton Creek. At Queenborough, the harbour trust is improving mooring facilities for Thames sailing barges. Lloyds Wharf, in Milton Creek, is home to the Raybel...
Classic vessels / History/archaeology / Sailing barges / Swale
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 19 November, 2020
On the high tide of 16 November, after months of careful planning, the restoration team successfully manoeuvred the sailing barge Raybel into her dry dock in Milton Creek at Sittingbourne. More information…
Local interest piece on BBC Southeast current,y scheduled for Wednesday 9 September at 6.30 pm: Dr Sidney Bernard, Stangate Quarantine Station and the brave doctor’s burial site – “the loneliest grave in England.”
Welders at the Dockyard called these low, stable working platforms “soggy logs”. John Sutton, owner of the Russian submarine, lost his when it was “borrowed.” He says, “it was about 15ft x 6ft with...
If you are in Sittingbourne on Wednesday evening 15 July, Raybel Charters invite you to witness history being made. Back in January, sailing ship Gallant left Trinidad on a voyage to collect sail cargo...
Faversham / History/archaeology / Medway Council / Peel Ports / Planning
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 30 June, 2020 · Last modified 2 July, 2020
A joint initiative by the Maritime Heritage Trust (MHT) and National Historic Ships (NHS) Shipshape Network, with strong support from European Maritime Heritage (EMH), proposes that historic ports and harbours in England, Scotland, Wales...
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 2 June, 2020 · Last modified 5 June, 2020
The Ministry of Defence is offering £5 million to have the masts removed from the wreck of the Richard Montgomery, an American liberty ship that broke her back and sank off Sheerness in August...
Cruising Association / History/archaeology / Talk or lecture
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 6 March, 2020 · Last modified 4 March, 2020
Jeremy Batch is always good news. Next time you sail past the O2 “Dome” or fly over it on the cable-car, look to the opposite bank and you will see the site of the...
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