Ships & Boats

Launch of concrete barge "Cretabode"

Museum Ref No: F4d_0025
Concrete barge "Cretabode", No. 142701, launched at Hamworthy 1918. Built by Hill, Richards & Co. Ltd. 662 tons. Length 190ft., breadth 33ft. 7in., depth 15ft. 5in. Owner A. Batchelor. Registered London.
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Launch of concrete barge PD25

Museum Ref No: F4d_0022
Launch of the first concrete built barge, PD25, at Lake Shipyard, 17 August 1918. Paddle steamer in the middle distance salutes the launching. Barge was 190ft. long, had a 33ft. beam, was 15ft. 6in. in depth and at one time the shipyard employed 1,500 men. (Chisman, LW, 1978)
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Launching "PE69"

Museum Ref No: Bristowe1_117
Men preparing "PE69" for launch. From the Ernest Bristowe collection.
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Laurel

Museum Ref No: MAR 364.13309423
Dorset Smugglers by Roger Guttridge, published by Dorset Publishing Co.,Sherborne, 1984. ISBN 0902129 53 8. Pages 62-63 - Revenue cutter Laurel.
Book

LCA landing craft

Museum Ref No: F4c_0008
Line of LCA landing craft moored in Holes Bay, World War Two 1940-1945
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Loss of life on the "Hearts of Oak"

Extract from the Poole Pilot, January 1869
Newspaper

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Loss of the "David"

Extract from the Poole Pilot August 1867.
Newspaper

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Loss of the "David"

Extract from the Poole Pilot September 1867
Newspaper

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Loss of the brigantine "Thomas"

Extract from The Poole Pilot February 1869.
Newspaper

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Man (Mr.Coney?) in dinghy

Museum Ref No: Coney album 6 photograph 15
Unidentified man in dinghy (possibly Mr.Coney). Barge in middle ground, Poole Quay in background. (Coney photograph)
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