Category: Marine

Rye’s Own approaches Marine as a living magazine subject, bringing together news, personalities, photographs and stories from across the archive. Articles including “My Shipwrecked Ancestor.”, “Smeaton Again”, “Hastings – Cinque Port”, “Russian Navy Sails Past Rye”, and “Nationwide Fishing Rights Protest” give a flavour of the people, places and moments collected here. It is designed for browsing: one familiar name or remembered incident often opens the door to another.

Hastings – Cinque Port

The 1840 Sussex Directory claimed that Hastings was the head of the Cinque Ports Confederation before telling us it was a Corporate and Parliamentary Borough, demonstrating the importance still placed in the Cinque Ports heritage at that time, even though the Kent & Sussex fleet’s days of glory were well over by the time of … Continue reading Hastings – Cinque Port

The Anchor is Safe

The Heritage Centre Anchor is quite safe Rye Town Clerk, Richard Farhall tells us “The timber needed to be replaced but the Environment Agency A has a policy of not using hardwood so there was a delay while a reclaimed source could be found. Then the EA’s carpenter was off. He is back now but there … Continue reading The Anchor is Safe

We Built at Lighthouse

When the first nuclear power station was built at Dungeness over forty years ago it was suddenly realized that it would obstruct the lights from the old lighthouse to ships approaching from the West. It was decided that another one would have to be built quickly to the East of the old one and further … Continue reading We Built at Lighthouse