Ships & Boats

Vessels beginning with A

Transcription of Shipping Index Cards - Poole History Centre
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Vessels beginning with B

Transcription of the Shipping Index Cards - Poole History Centre
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Victoria Terrace

Museum Ref No: D_Baiter_Street_0019
Victoria Terrace (off Baiter Street). Flat-bottomed boat in foreground. Photographer Barbara Bristowe.
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View from Evening Hill, 1957

Museum Ref No: Bristowe2_107.
A view from Evening Hill looking towards the Sandbanks Peninsula and Brownsea Island. From the Ernest Bristowe collection.
Photograph

Violent Storm, 1753

Extract from Salisbury Journal 22nd January 1753 describing a violent storm which had fatal consequences. The "Young Green" of Poole was lost off the Isle of Wight, the master, Pearce and two men saved, but six men lost.
Newspaper

War with France, 1756

Extract from the Salisbury Journal for 31 May 1756. War declared on France. Shipping movements curtailed. "Fox", privateer, preparing to sail.
Newspaper

Wayfarer dinghy racing

Museum Ref No: Batting/Box 15/Poole Yachting Week 1952, 1/No. 3
Wayfarer W19 and 2 others at Poole Yachting Week 1952. (Batting photograph)
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Wills, Horace Frank Wills

Museum Ref No: Wills_1, Wills 1a
Fishermen's Dock: Horace Frank Wills rowing the last seine boat built in Poole with British Seagul outboard.
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Wooden sailing boat

Museum Ref No: F4b_0071
Six men in a gaff-rigged wooden sailing boat, 1930s
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WWII Landing Craft

Museum Ref No: B4a_0007
A World War II Landing Craft. Brownsea Island can be seen in the distance. From the Ernest Bristowe collection.
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