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Upstream Shipyards

  • A ship launch at Wivenhoe Shipyard in 1943

    A ship launch at Wivenhoe Shipyard in 1943

    Ship launches at that time were big social occasions
  • George Wyatt, Shipbuilder

    George Wyatt, Shipbuilder

  • Harvey's shipyard in 1878

    Harvey's shipyard in 1878

    An early photograph
  • Moses Game, Shipbuilder

    Moses Game, Shipbuilder

  • Otto Magnus Andersen

    Otto Magnus Andersen

    Wivenhoe's Norwegian entrepreneur.
  • The Boatbuilders of the 'Upstream' yard

    The Boatbuilders of the 'Upstream' yard

    Boatbuilding started in 1528 on the 'upstream' side of Wivenhoe on the River Colne
  • Thomas and John Harvey

    Thomas and John Harvey

    Wivenhoe shipbuilders
  • Wivenhoe Goods Shed and the 1994 project to turn it into a community use building

    Wivenhoe Goods Shed and the 1994 project to turn it into a community use building

    This building was popularly known as the 'Engine Shed'
  • Wivenhoe Shipbuilders - Moses Game

    Wivenhoe Shipbuilders - Moses Game

    Moses Game was a shipbuilder in the 1780s
  • Wivenhoe Shipyard in 1943

    Wivenhoe Shipyard in 1943

    Wivenhoe Shipyard Ltd was formed to take over the old Forrestt shipyard which had lain unused since 1936.
  • Rennie Forrestt

    Rennie Forrestt (17)

  • Wivenhoe Shipyard Ltd

    Wivenhoe Shipyard Ltd (15)

Maritime
  • 'Friday' Green and Elise - CK299
  • A Wivenhoe "landmark" the Cap Pilar
  • About William Sanford b. 1749 -1830
  • Cox & King, Wivenhoe
  • Guy Harding's Boatyard in the 1980s
  • Mersea Museum
  • R.Y.S. Britannia
  • Rosabelle Stores
  • Swedish timber ships
  • The Boatbuilders of the 'Upstream' yard
  • The Cap Pilar
  • The Jessie Annandale
  • The Northseamen
  • The Racing Yacht "Genesta"
  • The Story of Cooks Shipyard
  • Thomas and John Harvey
  • Wivenhoe as a port in the late 1500s
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