This free exhibition from the Thames Sailing Barge Trust tells the story of the Thames Sailing Barge and its association with The River Medway. See the exhibition at Medway Archives Centre during ...

We began at Butterman’s Bay, where the old square-riggers used to offload grain from Australia on to the waiting Thames sailing barges. With 2,600 square feet of red ochre sail filled by a soft breeze ...

Restoration work has started on a historic Thames sailing barge which is being brought back to its former glory by a Norfolk teenager. Ash Faire Ring, 18, is restoring Growler in his home village of ...

The Shipowners’ P&I Club is sponsoring the Mark Boyle Memorial Thames Sailing Barge Match which takes place on July 13, 2013 in this its 150th anniversary year. The event is held this year in memory ...

The barge was similar to those that would have taken freight along the river A 120-year-old Dutch barge has travelled up a river to highlight the history of the River Colne. The vessel travelled from ...

The Shipowners’ P&I Club is sponsoring the Mark Boyle Memorial Thames Sailing Barge Match which takes place on July 13, 2013 in this its 150th anniversary year. The event is held this year in memory ...

Three Norfolk wherries and a Thames sailing barge are to be restored thanks to a £1m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The Wherry Yacht Charter Charitable Trust has been given £492,500 to buy and ...

Another new display by the Ipswich Maritime Trust in its Window Museum on Albion Wharf celebrates the role of our sailing barges in trading here, there and everywhere, in days gone by, Those were the ...