Now, as a retired person, one might think everything would be well in hand and that I’d be looking forward to a nice, relaxing Christmas Eve at the hearth, content in the knowledge I’d done everything ...

In the period between the 1850s and 1900 it was not uncommon to see anywhere from 10 to 20 ships, most of them sailing vessels, docked at Chatham wharfs positioned along both sides of the river, from ...