COASTAL SHIPPING DOCUMENTARY: A Passage To Wisbech.
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- čas přidán 14. 02. 2014
- A documentary about the work and life aboard the old coaster "Carrick" as she plies the waters of the North Sea and the English Channel trading to the ports of Southern England and the Near Continent. Of particular interest is her passage into the port of Exmouth, Devon, which has since passed into history and been replaced with new housing development. The "Carrick" is also history having been scrapped at Sittingbourne, Kent, in 1988, a few years after this documentary was made.
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Lovely video. These men were the salt of the earth, independent, tough and hard working. I am 75 and worked in mining and met many men like these on the mine sites.
I knew her well .I was so fit moving those hatch boards..thanks the memories you made an old man happy.
Thankfully I had a long life at sea... 40 years!.. I loved every minute of it..
Brilliant absolutely loved it !
No swearing No Crudeness !
It’s not so long ago but people were polite and well mannered to one another!
Those days are unfortunately but a memory.
Memories from an era I was lucky enough to get a glimpse of
I spent 2 years on a YTS apprenticeship on a twin masted scrubbing brush just like this. The happiest days of my life. Thank you for posting.
Just browsing and found this .. what a gem !!
Yes!
What a fantastic video worked on two coasters in Germany the rest big ships went to sea for 12 years had to quit because of health problems
I am a former merchant navy seaman from Barbados, work in Harrison line Blue star line love this video.
Schitterende documentaire, vroeger kwam ik met de coaster de "Twebro" ook veel in Exmouth. in '84 en '85.
dierbare herinneringen en mooie tijd.
What a gem of a film, thank you so much for uploading it. I wish there were documentary's like this still being produced. A simple story, simply told, letting the narrative speak for itself. No flashy graphics, no jump cut editing, no padding or repetition. I remember seeing boats like this at Hull as a kid & later at Wells Next The Sea & Kings Lyn. Thanks again.
Great historical timepiece of a bygone way of life, loved seeing the cases of beer under the Old Man's desk.. Thanks for uploading.
Yes!
Absolutely thoroughly enjoyed this film! Great (now) historical documentary. Technology has made fossils of this world. Just salt of the earth! Superb.
This is a good exemple of a high quality documentary, like they knew and loved doing at that time. See how carefully framed the images are, the quality of sound, the commentaries, explaining the essential but not too long.
Thanks for sharing
Yes!
My father's last years at sea were spent on these little craft ... and yet he found it the best few years of his life. Thank you
Thanks for posting. A great documentary of the days which will never return. I began my career on such old coasters in the 80's. Many happy times!
Just magnificent. Reminds me of all those lovely little boats of Robbies of Glasgow, Metcalfs, Gardiners, Rowbothams, so many company's & ships mostly gone, end of an era doesn't even start to describe it.
I sailed with Rick Walters as master and Peter Herbert as mate aboard the enterprise ex Braden enterprise then the rix Harrier. Lovely times. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Good memories..
As an ex AB doing deep sea trips in the late fifties early sixties must admit I don’t remember any derogatory remarks about coaster crews let’s face it we were all SEAMEN and did the same type of job be it on a coaster or larger cargo or any other type of ship. Great upload really enjoyed it it brought back lots of memories.
I was also deep sea, but did notice a bit of looking down on coasters, especially the "Everard" ships.
Most enjoyable, Australia once had the same but the unions killed it off. The "Sixty Milers" small coastal coal ships, all long gone now, as too the coastal tankers. Hatch boards and tarps, the old days, no MacGregor hatches then! Great little ship and a great story, thank you.
I spent 52 years at sea many of them on the coast but now retired. I enjoyed the video it brought memories back to forgotten times.
Me too.
The narrator was slightly premature in announcing the Carrick's arrival in Wisbech - she was passing through Sutton Bridge at the time, with its famous swing bridge. That brings back a lot of memories for me.
Nice video. A little gem to be treasured in the warmest corner of the heart. I sailed on a large 120,000 DWT British crude oil tanker in the early 1980s. However only when I visited a small coastal ship, I knew the true "knights of the seas". Oh, yes... they would never would change their lives for the "sad guys who works onshore" !!!
we used to sail up to Norwich, under the london bridges, Bow Creek, Colchester, no pilots, in the home trade. Primitive ships, constant steering, no radar....
Amazing documentary , I could watch this over and over, I love those days and those Coasters and importantly the most in Lads that was in the shipping industry back then.
Fantastic film this is. Featuring my favourite docks of all time, Exmouth. Spent many years around the area, and even saw the Carrick on a few occasions. Happy Times.
What a wonderful documentary of English gentleman doing what they love. How sad that these hard working Brits end up going bust whilst the bankers and hedge fund managers just keep getting fatter.
Yes. And it DOUBLED the UK National Debt to bail out the bankers. Siticks in the neck, doesn't it!
That's capitalism for you
A discussion point: what is the difference between a businessman and a capitalist?
@@chubeye1187 A discussion point: what is the difference between a businessman and a capitalist?
Thank you, great to see coastal shipping it could be brought back, to improve logistics. Reduce traffic jams, emissions.
Great video. Reminders me of Dutch Coaster I sailed in the Caribbean, from Belem up to Baltimore and west to Panama. She was called the Jomal and she could have been the sister to the vessel in this video. The old man was a drunk but the crew was great. I was lucky to have that opportunity.
As a retired ship captain (USCG 3000 ton Master) loved every minute of it!
I grew up on the great lakes... never desired to work on a boat there. However if Id known about British coasting I might have swam the ditch to get there... This looks like the kind of sailing I would have enjoyed. I worked in the US Navy for 1O years and some fishing boats in Alaska, but that wasnt fun. I also worked dive boats in Florida but that was just tourism... I think I missed the boat when it comes to real sailing and a real mans job. Merchant marine work seemed just too arduous to get up the ladder... even now at 61 I still dream about finding a boat to operate... Thanks for the vid
I sailed on a coaster with a female first mate called Linda (Heindrike) I think……she & her husband bought the Carrick & run it aground coming into the Hook of Holland,
Really good doc. Worth watching
What a fantastic 40 minutes. Certainly brings back memories of coasting. Great life.🇬🇧
I had a few months as Mate on a coasting Barge for L&RTC, in 1969, but left to take up a belated apprenticeship as a plater/welder. I joined the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service (Naval trained part time volunteers) in 1972 and because of my trade, was accepted as a junior engineer. I had sixteen years at sea with them, often passing my old barge and many other ships of the company. I was a chief engineer by 1975 and loved my time at sea. Had I have been put on one of the larger continental coasters, I'd very likely have stayed there, but happy memories of those great times. As others on here have said, if I had my time over again, I'd spend longer on the Coasters than I did.
Great story. Thanks
Never done the coasters always been deep sea for 41 years all the British coasters are gone now Everards, Crescent, I can remember sailing up and down the Thames so sad they have all gone
Lovely expository film. It gives the flavor and spirit of life as a merchant seaman. It brings back many memories both good and not so good. I enjoyed my time at sea and feel privileged to have experienced a life in which relatively few people take part. As for myself, it was a very satisfying life. Thank you for the upload!
Exactly, same here!
You and me both
Thanks for posting the video.
Yes!
Excellent documentary.. Old coaster's will not be forgotten..
Love this, thanks for sharing.
Excellent doc. Brings back memories of time gone by.
Lovely, informative, inspiring documentary of the old sort. Loved every minute of this time capsule
très bon reportage sur la vie à bord d'un caboteur où il existe vraiment le sentiment de vivre entre copains et sans véritablement de hiérarchie ...
I did 4 years on the coastal waters .Channel coast ,one ship ,and 2 years on the flatirons ,up the Thames to the Barking power station .plus other colliers , then deep sea for 6 years .Best years of my life
Best Nautical school you could ever go to was coasting. No problem from the Old Man if you wanted to learn how the radar worked or trying to plot a course etc etc. Some Seamen these days have never even been on the bridge of their ship.
Hi all I sailed with Rick Walters skipper on the sanmark with petter Herbert as mate . What happy days . I was 22 and it was the first ship I sailed on and was hook from that day very happy time.
This is excellent, thank you for uploading.
Love the sound of older ship engines❤
I am 57 and regret I did not go away to sea. However watching this programme ,warts and all it makes you realise its not quite the idylic lifestyle you might have thought.
What is?
@@dozukime Any profession which you enjoy.
Ended up on the coast working for Rowbotham Tankships - great life, Wisbech was a regular port of call.
Happy days.
Marvellous and so many skills we still need today. Great human story..thank you.
Brings back memories. Done a few deep sea trips but loved it on the coast.
Thanks for uploading this,I have been looking for it for years,I can remember watching it as a little boy at home.Brilliant.
I am watching this in August of 2023. Still a very interestingly narrative. I love old boats and here it’s plenty of it. Sad that the company stopped operating though.
In case you missed it, the set up was using a bilge pump for engine cooling. Petula Clark "Sailor". Worked for Wharton, Rix, Union Transport. Knew several owner the Whitting brothers, Clive Austin. The infamous Ben Evan, I was coasting in the Red Sea a complete different ball game to this.
Very enjoyable, thanks for posting.
lovely doc, such a good hearted pilot
👍👍 Very well made Report without annoying junk music.
The Union Star sank due to a design fault. Captain Moreton was not at fault. RIP to the crew of the Union Star and the Solomon Browne.
I worked on 1961 built MV Mary Coast, she was the oldest working tarp's and hatches coaster afloat. I loved it, tramping is great, the ship's a home and the crew your family. Hard work, good food, well paid, tip top.
I see why crew could grow to love coasters and coasting. If I was to have my life over again maybe I'd give it a go..... Must check what happened to Carrick.
I used to see some beautiful Dutch coasters coming in to Swansea docks back in the 80s and 90s
Fantastisch dat ik mijn eerste schip, toen nog Eddystone, nog in filmbeelden terug kan zien. Ik heb hier als matroos op gevaren in de begin 1960's
Great that i can see this film of my first ship. In the early 1960's she was a Dutch coaster Eddystone and i was a ordinary sailor in those days onboard this ship.
Zijn er niet meer van deze geweldige mooie nostalgische filmpjes?
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Dat klopt John, ik zag je voetstappen nog aan boord! Ik was bij de sloop in , ik meen 1988, in Sittingbourne en had het houten interieur gekocht van de (uiterst fraaie) salon van de kapitein,
om te demonteren en elders weer op te bouwen. Totdat de sloper me een poosje later belde dat het feest niet doorging, want bij het slopen was er brand gekomen (wanneer niet bij slopen) en de salon was niet meer. Toen ik voor de tweede keer terugging naar de sloperij heeft hij de schoorsteen eraf gebrand, die mocht ik als goedmaker hebben, maar die nam je
niet mee achter op je fiets, dus die ging per vrachtwagen naar de smeltoven. De Carrick was oud en totaal afgeragd (laatste 10 jaar weinig of geen onderhoud) , maar het was bij aflevering in 1954 een schitterend scheepje met sublieme accommodatie en heel veel met hout betimmerd. Veel beter dan menige andere coaster. Haar E.J.Smit- Westerbroek-zusjes waren ook zo (bijv, de Erebus en de Sparta). Die foto van je John, is die uit je Eddystone-jaren? Neem niet aan van 2021 ?! Het ga je goed.
@@koosriedijk3872 De foto staat ook in mijn monsterboekje uit 1963. De Eddystone was een geweldig schip ik heb er met veel plezier mijn matrozen jaren op doorgebracht. Op de BBC film zie je kleine ronde gaatjes bij het handvat van de luiken, de gaatjes heb ik er allemaal ingeboord met een handboor in opdracht van de stuurman Harm Houwen. Er bleef n.l altijd water staan in het handvatkuiltje. Het model van de Eddystone staat volgens mij nog steeds in het museum in Delfzijl, een prachtig werk van machinist Willem Engelvaart.
Absolutely fascinating video, very redolent of its time and what a huge loss this trade is.
what memories , i sailed with whitbury shipping and lapthorns and a few panamanian ships back in the early 80s up till 91 . we worked very hard , but in our own time we did some crazy things , i remember the dock side pubs and the dock rats , skippers with real mental problems not to mention alcohol problems ( mainly panamanian ships ) one first mate hide a girl onboard for nearly 2 weeks before the skipper found her hiding in the fridge when he came down and she was making a sandwich , he just closed the fridge door and said bloody first mate is at it again . happy funny scary times . jon rimmer
Did a couple of years in the early '60s with British & Continental Steamship Co out of Liverpool to the continent, very reminiscent of the "Carrick", happy days.
Glyn, the ships of British & Continental were totally different and not to be compared with the small 600 tons Carrick . The ships you were on were mainly steamers, a lot bigger, like the Ardetta, Bittern and Clangula, real cargo liners plus the different Egret, a motor ship, but twice/three times the capacity of the Carrick. That is , again, a total different world, also because the others were liners from Liverpool and the Carrick is a small tramper, with an extreme limited crew (half of what it was when entering service) (so maybe 5 of the 10 she started with in 1954), which means extremely hard working and little sleep/rest. All that was far better organized on ships of bigger companies.
I sailed with George Norman the mate in the mid seventy's, he was second mate on a Metcalfa coastal tanker, the Frank M I think. He always wore blue, blue cap, shirt, trousers, and jacket. We used to call him "little boy blue"
Worked for a shipbroker in London in the early 80's remember regularly working Coe Metcalf coasters, Frank M, Frederick M & Nicholas M.
I went to sea in 1957 ,
Loved it , Ivanovic
Shipping company.
Port line , Shaw Savill ( NZ )
BP tankers etc but I
really enjoyed this.
Many thanks .
Ahhh... The Go-Gos, I had that single. Must be 1980, 81? Would love to check what else was on that Jukebox. GREAT DOCO! Good days!
Great documentary about a time long gone.
No more shipping federation and no more "pool" as it all went in the late 80s, as the fleet was "re-flagged".
Or to put it another after the falklands war and in the aftermath, the Thatcher government decided it did not need to support the Merchant service, in renewing the feet, so it didn't......
Everyone had words of wisdom 👍
this is a fantastic video thanks for sharing it
at 1'32" : Bam!!! the heaving line hit the car on the pier
And thats why you dont park your car close to a mooring ship
Yes, that must have resulted in a nice dent.
Hit hard.
Fantastic video, When was it made? I joined up with Vanbrook Marine based at Rye Harbour on the Doreen B in 1976 through to 1977, fantastic time in my life. I remember slinging those hatch boards around a 6 in the morning ready to be loaded/unloaded. We used to go across the channel to St Valery and up the Rhine a couple times a month, set off from Rotterdam to the Humber for Gainsborough. Was only 5 of us on the ship. I wish I had stuck to it but I met a girl, left and got married. It was easy to rise through the ranks back then, infact the skipper Paul Putwain who was a lovely chap was about 28 and 18 months prior he was a lorry driver and knew nothing about the sea. I really would love go back to it if had the same ship and crew. Be safe everyone
Thanks for your interesting recollections. I know Rye Harbour well. I've been up the River Rother on the MV Balmoral - a video of that is on my channel. This documentary was made in 1986.
@@oldelephantstew i will check it.out, Cheers
Great film .. thanks. Regular on the coast as Mate with Rowbotham Tankships on the 'Tillerman' - Wisbech one of our ports of call for Texaco.
Very good video. Like it thanks for it !
Bless em all.. Ain't it the way that there's always a recession haunting working folk.. While the city lot get fatter!? 🤔
Nice one guys...
Thom in Scotland.
OMG, been there, done all that in all ranks, started in 1962 aged 17. This coaster was at the end of its lifetime. But many things the same, informality was what I liked most, but not the cold North sea and Baltic. I moved my focus to the caribbean.
What a fascinating film!
I really enjoyed this ,
Thank you .
This reminds me of my Old Man As he worked for Alexandra Towing company. He would have enjoyed this.
i used to do it in the danish merchant navy best time of my life
Brilliant.
I served on a coaster named the Normandy,cant remember owners names
We sailed from Woolwich Pier destination Paris
She was flat bottomed the masts and funnel used to fold down,when we'd arrive at Le Harve a pilot would board and he would take her up the riverSeine,would stop every night at small villages their were about 200 bridges or so can't remember exactly now.
I did 3 trips on her it was great fun rest ofmy time back to deep sea until 1966
M.V. Carrick was later sold to a Malaysian Shipping company during the 80s and renamed as M.V. Tat Lee" which plied Sibu, Malaysia and Singapore and carrying with its the export local agriculture produce like smoked rubber, illipenut and sago flour .
I once worked on board as a cargo checker during the early 80s and it was a pride to work on a "modern" cargo ship at that time with its unbreakable cruising speed of 9.5 knots per hours which was considered the fastest ship in the shipping lane during those days.
You must have the wrong Carrick, as this one in the film didnt go to Malaysia at all!!! She remained here UK-continent and was broken up in Sittingbourne in abt 1988. I visited her many times in Rotterdam and also in Sittingbourne during the scrap=process. So check your info, as it is incorrect.
@@koosriedijk3872 anyway it reminded me of the small cargo ship which I once worked on board . Later I left the merchant ship to join Malaysian Navy as their cadet officer and gradually promoted to the commander of the fleet
Thank you.
Yes once the sea in your blood its hard to give it up.
Spent 18 yrs deep sea on deck watching this should have gave the coast a go.
At 2.12 the old Inner Dowsing light tower. About 12 NM off Skegness,Lincs.It's no longer there,long since replaced with a light bouy .
Fantastic video thank you.
Boston was always a good run ashore... Always got it wet there...
BEAUTIFULL
If i was ten years younger
id put my hand up to work one of these ships ,theres very little such work in australia , we had some of these ships in Australia in the sixties but all gone now
enjoyed that...
captain stoical or what......just want to buy that guy a pint or ten. Fanfuckingtastic crew.
beautifull.
"hows your head"
"errr, ok"
Classic :D
2:37
+666munkynutz Agreed. I couldn't believe it!
the mate was trying to be cleaver NOT.
The song sailor was sung
by Anne Shelton .
great life shame its all gone
reminded me of the happy days
great crew, gentleman, no BS