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    Cambria: the most famous of the Thames sailing barges

    Dec 09, 2021 1 minute

    he was the last Thames sailing barge to trade entirely under sail. She made her last trading voyage - taking 100 tonnes of cattle cake from Tilbury Docks to Ipswich - columnist Dick Durham, who was 18 when he made the voyage with her then owner, Captain Bob Roberts and his third hand, Penny, a Welsh Collie. Dick has written about Captain Roberts’ life in his book, .

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