Sparrows Nest, Whapload Road, Lowestoft, NR32 1XG  Tel 01502 561963 

Update Jan 2012

 

 

 

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Our website is truly international and viewed by thousands; as tales of the sea are always interesting, a selection of your letters will be included here.    If you have a story to tell, please email it to us if possible, or post it to the address above, for the attention of Colin Dixon. A picture of yourself and the ship or event is always welcome. The subject can be anything maritime, historical or modern, military or commercial including navigation, oil and gas exploration. Preferably related to the North Sea in some way.

email:- colin@lowestoftmaritimemuseum.org.uk

 

The picture shows Bob Blizzard MP (left) in 2009 presenting a Merchant Navy Service medal to Bill Willis. Bill's long experience of life at sea has provided him with a fund of good stories, some of which you will find in these pages. Click on the Red Duster left and you will find his story of 'Apricity's forecastle portholes breaking under press of weather.  

Other stories stretch from simple things like the roles and responsibilities of the Ship's Master and the Chief Engineer to his experiences of early marine radar including a sea of echoes from lobster pot markers off the French coast in the 1980s. Check this space over time!

USS Edenton, USS Beaufort, USS Brunswick.

 

In the early 1970’s Brooke Marine Shipbuilders in Oulton Broad, built three salvage tugs for the American Navy. The first was named U.S.S. EDENTON, the second U.S.S. BEAUFORT and the third U.S.S. BRUNSWICK these had to be delivered to the American Naval base in Norfolk, Virginia.

 

Museum Vice Chairman Jim Aguss has vivid recollections of the first voyage, click on the picture (right) for more of the story......