Posted by Peter Ceresole on November 18, 2008 at 21:48:32 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Barges, was Google Maps (was Tie points - posted by Jock on November 18, 2008 at 20:57:18:
There are three surviving concrete barges at Walton-on-the-Naze.
Yup. That's the badger. Those sloping strakes cast in by the bows are very distinctive. They never had any superstructure that I could see, and the deck was rather neatly covered over with a concrete shell with a couple or three large hatches. It must have made them very strong.
Well done for finding them. I searched for "concrete lighters" rather than for "concrete barges". Not that clever, I guess...
"Concrete barges" pulls up quite a lot.