''Reminder'' is one of seven

Thames barge A Thames sailing barge is a type of commercial sailing boat once common on the River Thames in London. The flat-bottomed barges with a shallow draught and leeboards, were perfectly adapted to the Thames Estuary, with its shallow waters and narr ...

s built between 1925 and 1930 for F W Horlock,

Mistley Mistley is a large village and civil parish in the Tendring district of northeast Essex, England. It is around 11 miles northeast of Colchester and is east of, and almost contiguous with, Manningtree. The parish consists of Mistley and New Mist ...

History

In 1924 the Horlocks commissioned seven new steel Thames barges, of which ''Reminder'' was the fourth. Six of these ‘seven sisters’ are still afloat: ''Blue Mermaid'' was lost to a mine in World War 2. They were built at Mistley.

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