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This site will be of interest to the tug enthusiast and anyone who may have a  passing    interest in tugs of the Thames and Medway, also meteorology and local weather conditions.

   New I have opened a TUGGIES photo gallery to run in conjunction with The Riverman which I hope  will give visitors the opportunity to interact with the site. The picture gallery is two categories a view only gallery where you may post comments or information on individual pictures, and, a users upload gallery where users may post their own pictures with comments. Before uploading pictures in the gallery you will be required to register. Registering will take about two minutes, is FREE and once registered you are under no obligation.

 There is a page JP Knight which is a picture history of the local tug company J. P. Knight showing photographs of most of their tugs from 1892 until 1991 when they ceased operations on the Thames and Medway.

    I have included a page for the South Eastern Tug Society which is my personal tribute to the crew who have worked very hard restoring the tug  KENT to a presentable working example of a tug of her era. ( I crewed on the KENT in the early sixties.)

    The Tug Funnels page is an attempt to show the logo's that tug owners have used over the last 100+ years to identify their vessels. Information for the early years is not readily available so the list is far from complete. It will be updated as information becomes available.

    The Weather page is my personal weather station. The equipment  to run the station was presented to me as retirement gift from the company and colleagues I worked with. At present it is working as a basic weather station giving current local weather which is updated every 15 minutes and live weather updated every 5 seconds. The software programme is complex and is capable of a lot more configurations.

    The Links page contains lots of links relating to the towage industry, enough to keep a tug anorak occupied for hours, there are also links to weather related sites.

    In June 2002 I retired from work as a tuggy ( 45 years of chugging up and down the Medway on various tugs ) an occupation I have enjoyed and wi     ll probably miss.

                          Left................LADY MADELEINE.............(Now based at Southampton)

                          Centre............LADY BRENDA..................(Sheerness)

                          Right..............LADY MORAG....................(Sheerness)

    This site was created to occupy my spare time (what spare time) and keep me in touch with ex colleagues and fellow tugmen that I have known and worked with over the past 45 years.

                         Last update  13/08/2008                                                                                                 Free Submission