In the 1930s, hundreds of barges sailed the crowded waters of the Thames estuary carrying up to 100 tons of every sort of cargo - wheat and barley, coal, gun powder, cement and gravel. These remarkable craft were worked by a crew of two - skipper and mate. Here, the shipmate tells his story.
- ISBN10 0850364442
- ISBN13 9780850364446
- Publish Date 10 August 1995
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
- Imprint Seafarer Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 168
- Language English