The Society for Sailing Barge Research
www.sailingbargeresearch.org.uk

Individual members specialize in various aspects of Sailing barge Research, such as owning and preserving the vessels, researching the histories of vessels, people and places associated with the barges, model making, writing, sketching, painting and photography or who are just simply interested.

They provided this site with a lot of the history of the various Vandervord Barges

Thames Sailing Barge Heritage Centre (Maldon)
www.cooksbargeyard.co.uk

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Cooks Barge Yard, The Hythe
Maldon, Essex
CM9 5HN

Opening Hours:
Easter Friday to 30th September, Wednesday to Sunday 11am to 5 p.m.
Winter weekends (October-December) Sunday 12pm to 4pm

for information about anthing to do with UK history - if they don't know the answer
they will find out for you!

Research Guides
from the National Maritime Museum
www.port.nmm.ac.uk/research/research.html