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Rennie Forrestt

  • About the sailing barge Wyvenhoe

    About the sailing barge Wyvenhoe

    Built in Wivenhoe in 1898. Still going today.
  • About the Smack Yacht "Vera" built in Wivenhoe in 1893

    About the Smack Yacht "Vera" built in Wivenhoe in 1893

    Built by Forrest & Sons of Wivenhoe. Researched by the late Bill Ellis
  • Cecil Rhodes - a steamer for Lake Tanganyika

    Cecil Rhodes - a steamer for Lake Tanganyika

    Built in Wivenhoe by Forrestt & Sons in 1898 completed in 1899
  • Colne River Police boat

    Colne River Police boat

    Built to defend the oysters!
  • Flying ? Machines (1)

    Flying ? Machines (1)

  • Flying machines (2)

    Flying machines (2)

    Hulls for Felixstowe F3 flying boats
  • Forrestt Shipyard, Wivenhoe

    Forrestt Shipyard, Wivenhoe

    Anon, 64pp photocopy (Essex County Libraries E.WIV 623.83)
  • Gambia’s Big King's Messenger

    Gambia’s Big King's Messenger

    A mobile office for an African Colony's governor
  • HMS Pirouette

    HMS Pirouette

    Rennie Forrestt Shipbuilding, Engineering & Dry Dock Co. Ltd.
  • McEvers Bayard Brown

    McEvers Bayard Brown

    Wivenhoe's eccentric American millionaire.
  • Minesweeping Trawlers

    Minesweeping Trawlers

    Built to catch mines --- and cod.
  • Rennie Forrestt Shipbuilding, Engineering & Dry Dock Co. Ltd

    Rennie Forrestt Shipbuilding, Engineering & Dry Dock Co. Ltd

  • Rennie, Ritchie & Newport Shipbuilding Co. Ltd

    Rennie, Ritchie & Newport Shipbuilding Co. Ltd

    Shipwrights' Department 1922.
  • Small tugs built for the War Department, Royal Engineers.

    Small tugs built for the War Department, Royal Engineers.

    Rennie Forrestt Shipbuilding, Engineering & Dry Dock Co. Ltd (3)
  • Ten paddle tugs for the War Department

    Ten paddle tugs for the War Department

    Rennie Forrestt Shipbuilding, Engineering & Dry Dock Co. Ltd (4)
  • The canal tanker Homelight

    The canal tanker Homelight

  • The steam yacht Cysne II

    The steam yacht Cysne II

    The Government Chief Chemist’s yacht.
  • The Steamer 'Tern' at Windermere

    The Steamer 'Tern' at Windermere

    Built by Forrestt and Sons 1891
  • The Wivenhoe Submarine

    The Wivenhoe Submarine

    The Volta's Story
  • The Wreck of the Cecil Rhodes in Lake Tanganyika

    The Wreck of the Cecil Rhodes in Lake Tanganyika

    This vessel, built by Forrestts of Wivenhoe in 1899 for service on this lake, was sunk by enemy action in 1914
Upstream Shipyards
  • A Plaque to Mark 200 Years of Shipbuilding at Wivenhoe
  • A ship launch at Wivenhoe Shipyard in 1943
  • About Thomas and John Harvey in the 1800s
  • George Wyatt, Shipbuilder
  • Harvey's Shipyard Fire in 1872
  • Harvey's shipyard in 1878
  • Moses Game, Shipbuilder
  • Otto Magnus Andersen
  • The Boatbuilders of the 'Upstream' yard
  • Wivenhoe Shipbuilders - Moses Game
  • Wivenhoe Shipyard in 1943
  • Rennie Forrestt
  • Wivenhoe Shipyard Ltd
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