The Models
LET US TAKE YOU ON A JOURNEY THROUGH SOME OF THE SPLENDOUR OF THE MARITIME HERITAGE OF THE THAMES ESTUARY, ONE MODEL AT A TIME......
GAMECOCK (F76) - Renowned Whitstable Oyster Smack built by Collar Bros in 1907 - Currently being restored by Whitstable Maritime - The model was created by her original skipper, Albert Stroud - (Registered with National Historic Ships UK).
ROSA & ADA (F105) - The last and biggest Whitstable Oyster Smack built by Collar Bros in 1908 - Still sailing in Scottish waters out of Troon - (Registered with National Historic Ships UK).
PEACE (CK171) - An Essex Oyster Smack built in 1909 by Douglas Stone & Sons - she was the last Colne smack to be launched from the prolific Aldous Yard at Brightlingsea - Now based at West Mersea, she still sails regularly on the waters around Mersea Island, and the Blackwater and Colne estuaries.
DORIS (LO284) - A beautifully restored Leigh Bawley - Built in Harwich by Cann Bros in 1909 - Originally used for dredging cockles, she was primarily built and used for shrimping and whitebaiting - she can often still be seen sailing around the river, creeks and inlets of the Medway estuary. (Registered with National Historic Ships UK).
OLIVE MIRIAM (LO3) - The model is another lovely example of a Leigh Bawley - also built by Cann Bros at Harwich in 1907 and initially worked out of Leigh - main activities were shrimping, whitebaiting and spratting - latterly she was the last full-time shrimper based at Gravesend (Bawley Bay).
PRINCEPS (LT272) - A Lowestoft Herring Drifter, she was lost in a collision at sea in 1894.
SB KATHLEEN - Several fine models in wood of this famous Thames Sailing Barge (including two historic Remploy versions) and another in solid silver - Originally built in 1901 at the prolific Glovers Yard at Gravesend and registered at Rochester, she was owned and worked out of Whitstable by Daniel Bros shipping company for nearly 50 years.
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EMMA ERNEST - The last Collier ship to work out of Whitstable carrying coal to Kent from North-East England until the 1930s - Subsequently, under the stewardship of Albert 'Skipper' Stroud (who also created this model), she was lastly owned by the Seven Seas Club as their headquarters and moored alongside The Embankment in London.
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