I’ve just been browsing your website and have replied to a couple of posts concerning sailing barge ‘Scone’.
Attached is a very good picture of Scone as an auxiliary sailing barge . She is loaded with bales of paper pulp and probably about to lower down her mast prior to negotiating Rochester Bridge. Picture probably taken about 1953 or so. I have ‘lifted’ it from Facebook where it was posted by a Mr Peter Bullimore who was given it in with a load of tug pictures. So true provenance/ copyright unknown.
The 2nd picture was taken by me when we were re-rigging in 1978. Scone is on the beach at Upnor having her sides tarred.
Comments about this page
Add your own comment
Rob Hart..Fred was in a chatty mood that day then!!
In 1969 I was 16 and was the humble mate of the barge “Rodent” belonging to the same company as the “Scone”. Both barges had loaded grain at Tilbury for the mill at Stanbridge . We had been delayed by bad weather and missed our tides. The “Scone” was already anchored at Pagelsham when we crashed alongside, my skipper put his arm around Fred Petit, the Scone’s skipper and asked if we could lay alongside for the weekend and go home, Fred said two words to my skipper – “Bingo Bill” (unrepeatable here), needless to say we spent the weekend onboard, quarter of a mile down the river (Roach).
Add a comment about this page