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‘Bygone Kent’ Magazine

  • The Tugs at Ramsgate 1846-1938 - Part 1, Vol 10 (12) December 1989
  • The Tugs at Ramsgate 1846-1938 - Part 2, Vol 11 (1) January 1990
  • Carrying Coals to Margate - Vol 12 (6) June 1991
  • The Loss of the Dunbar Castle - Vol 12 (9) September 1991 - Read more
  • Royal Eagle, Pride of the Thames Excursion Fleet - Vol 13 (3) March 1992
  • Helena Modjeska,’ The Doomed Ship that Defied the Goodwins - Vol 13 (5) May 1992
  • The Mining of S.S. Dalryan - Vol 13 (7) July 1992
  • Trinity House and the Dungeness Pilot Station - Part 1, Vol 13 (9) September 1992
  • Trinity House and the Dungeness Pilot Station - Part 2, Vol 13 (10) October 1992
  • The Saga of the Silvia Onorato - Vol 12 (11) November 1991
  • The Dover Patrol; A Memoir of the 6th Flotilla - Vol 13 (12) December 1992
  • S.S. Kabinda—A Wartime Victim of the Goodwins - Vol 14 (1) January 1993
  • Douglas Kirkaldie and the Western Farmer - Vol 14 (4) April 1993
  • Paddle Steamer Golden Eagle, A Thames Favourite - Vol 14 (5) June 1993
  • Collision in Fog, the Mariner’s Nightmare - Vol 14 (8) August 1993
  • S.S. Luray Victory, Vanquished at ‘Calamity Corner - Vol 14 (10) October 1993
  • The Battles of Convoy CW8 at ‘Hellfire Corner - Vol 15 (1) January 1994
  • The Sandwells of Margate, A Maritime Family - Part 1, Vol 15 (2) February 1994
  • The Sandwells of Margate, A Maritime Family - Part 2, Vol 15 (3) March 1994
  • Two Attractive Ladies of the Medway; Queen of Thanet and Queen of Kent - Vol 15 (4) April 1994
  • Extraordinary Men; Recollections of the Thames Estuary Pilots - Vol 15 (6) June 1994
  • The Mining of H.M. Ships Adventure and Blanche - Vol 15(7) July 1994
  • Fire Aboard Tanker Johannishus - Vol 15 (10) September 1994
  • Queen of the Channel - Vol 15 (12) December 1994
  • Fred Mackie, A Master of all Maritime Trades - Vol 16 (5) May 1995
  • The North-East Spit Pilot Boats, Seventy Years of Progress - Vol 16 (8) August 1995
  • Captain Tom Aldis of the Royal Sovereign - Part 1, Vol 16 (9) September 1995
  • Captain Tom Aldis of the Royal Sovereign - Part 2, Vol 16 (10) October 1995
  • Texaco Caribbean – Dover Straits Disaster 1971 - Vol 17 (1) January 1996
  • ‘Royal Daffodil,’ A Memorable Ship in War and Peace - Vol 17 (3) March 1996
  • A Victorian Rescue, The Wreck of the Sarah - Vol 17 (5) May 1996
  • A Tale of Two Strandings, S.S. Agen and S.T. Sovac Radiant - Vol 17 (7) July 1996
  • Hoverlloyd Ltd., Cross-Channel Hovercraft Pioneers 1965-81 - Vol 17 (10) October 1996
  • The ‘Sun’ Tugs at Dunkirk - Vol 18 (2) February 1997
  • Paddle Steamer Crested Eagle, Greyhound of the Thames - Vol 18 (3) March 1997
  • The Downs Boarding Flotilla 1914-18 - Vol 18 (5) May 1997
  • The Epic Story of the Effluent Vessels - Part 1, Vol 18 (8) August 1997
  • The Epic Story of the Effluent Vessels - Part 2, Vol 18 (9) September 1997
  • The Surfboat Friend to All Nations - Part 1, Vol 18 (10) October 1997
  • The Surfboat Friend to All Nations - Part 2, Vol 18 (11) November 1997
  • The Saving (twice) of M.V. Hassel together with other Dover Strait Casualties - Part 1, Vol 19 (8) August 1998
  • The Saving (twice) of M.V. Hassel together with other Dover Strait Casualties - Part 2, Vol 19 (9) September 1998
  • The Last of the Line, Queen of the Channel (ii) - Vol 19 (12) December 1998
  • M.V. Coverack; A Year in the Life of a Ramsgate Coaster - Vol 20 (4) April 1999
  • Thanet Revealed, The Story of Sunbeam Photo Ltd. - Part 1, Vol 20 (5) May 1999
  • Thanet Revealed, The Story of Sunbeam Photo Ltd. - Part 2, Vol 20 (6) June 1999
  • North Foreland; The Last refuge of the Lighthouse Keeper - Part 1, Vol 21 (12) December 2000
  • North Foreland; The Last refuge of the Lighthouse Keeper - Part 2, Vol 22 (1) January 2001
  • A Ramble to and about Shellness, Sandwich, A Remote Corner of Kent - Vol 24 (10) October 2003
  • Anchors Away, Kent’s Ports and Harbours - Vol 31 (2) March-April 2010

‘Sea Breezes’ Magazine

  • Victims of the Magnetic Mine; First Casualties of the War off the Kent Coast - Vol 66 (561) September 1992
  • A Strange Coincidence of the Goodwin Sands; Mahratta, same name, same place but 30 years apart - Vol 67 (576) December 1993
  • Some Experiences of the Thames Estuary Pilots - Vol 68 (585) September 1994
  • Knight’s of the Medway; A History of J.P. Knight’s Tugs - Vol 69 (591) March 1995
  • Magnetic Mine! The Unexpected Survival of a Nondescript Ship (Empire Commerce) - Vol 72 (636) December 1998
  • 53 Years Ago: The Varne Disaster Remembered - January 2024

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