A wartime voyage to East Anglia, recorded on board the coastal sailing barge Cambria
The crew :
'Cully' Tovell, skipper
Alf Gowen , mate
Jimmy Adams , cook
Produced by Maurice Brown
Day in and day out, the tan-sailed Thames sailing barges with their beautifully characteristic rig beat, with their workaday cargoes, up and down the East Anglian coast. They do so under the constant threat of bomb, mine, and machine gun, though these men of sail display, says Maurice Brown , the most incredible indifference to danger. In fact, sailing the ship remains their chief task and problem.
The Cambria, on which Brown with engineers and recording equipment took a short routine trip, noisily disturbed by enemy action, is one of the most famous Thames barges, and has won many races.