Posted by Jock on May 03, 2012 at 01:44:51 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: A Thames Barge. posted by Martin Honor on May 02, 2012 at 23:55:39:
The surviving Thames Barges and Norfolk Wherries are living links with the days when
trading vessels were powered by sail.
Amazingly the last Thames Barge to carry cargo under sail alone, Bob Roberts's Cambrai,
was still working freight into the London Docks in 1970!