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Hi all,

thanks for all you comments so far, this old craft is certainly a strange animal!!

The location mooring is Port Hampton, on the Thames, opposite the LEH boatclub, about 2 miles upstream from Hampton Court[Henry 8ths place!!]

cheers,

Sunburyboy

Hi all, thank you for your greetings ! I am relieved the picture attached ok, the rowing 8 were passing at the time, so I included them-the rowing boat is about 20m long I would think, so for scale the old tug must be a similar length-15m?. From the pictures and articles I have read, I would guess t...

Hi Edward, Jorgen, others,good morning-

thanks for your messages.

having sought advice, now think ive compressed the picture-not sure if the quality will be fuzzy!!

anyway here it is-for scale the rowing boat 8 gives an idea.

here we go

Simon

Hi, I have just joined the site, hello all. I have seen an old craft-a small tug, possibly derived from a picket boat or similar,now moored and abandoned on the island-Port Hampton on the Thames, near the green footbridge.It has been there for at least several years-now looking rather sad, no sign o...