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Rennie Forrestt

  • 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
Upstream Shipyards
  • A ship launch at Wivenhoe Shipyard in 1943
  • George Wyatt, Shipbuilder
  • Harvey's shipyard in 1878
  • Moses Game, Shipbuilder
  • Otto Magnus Andersen
  • The Boatbuilders of the 'Upstream' yard
  • Thomas and John Harvey
  • Wivenhoe Goods Shed and the 1994 project to turn it into a community use building
  • Wivenhoe Shipbuilders - Moses Game
  • Wivenhoe Shipyard in 1943
  • Rennie Forrestt
  • Wivenhoe Shipyard Ltd
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