Great Yarmouth's long history with all things maritime is celebrated this weekend with a plethora of vessels from historic to present-day lining the river's South Quay.
The 15th Great Yarmouth Maritime Festival returns tomorrow and Sunday to celebrate the town's maritime history.
This year's visiting ships include the Dutch tall ships, the Minerva and Tres Hombres, the Daybreak (Humber Keel) and the Dunkirk Little Ship MTB102.
Here we take a look at some of the star attractions sailing in for the weekend's fun:
Tall Ship Minerva
The Minerva was built in 1935 in Germany as a steel sailing cargo vessel with an auxiliary engine. Her first name was Uwe Ursula and she and her four sister ships were among the last sailing cargo ships to be built. Based at Hamburg she worked the coastal waters of north west Europe until the mid-1980s. A joint ticket to view the Minerva and the Tres Hombres – £3 adult and £1.50 children (5-16).
Tall Ship Tres Hombres
The Tres Hombres is the world's only sailing cargo vessel, operating without a back-up engine. Dating back to 1943, she was discovered in Delft in 2007 by the 'tres hombres', three friends who restored the brigantine and founded the world's first modern 'emission free' shipping company, Fairtransport. The Tres Hombres operates across the Atlantic to the Caribbean and in European waters.
Daybreak
The Daybreak is a Humber Keel, built in 1934 for a firm of flour millers and carried imported grain from the docks in Hull along the tidal Humber river to the mill in Doncaster. She is the last vessel built in the UK to carry cargo under sail only. A diesel engine was added in 1939. Bought by her current owners in 1976, she has gradually been converted back to sail with accommodation on board for up to 11 people.
MTB102 Dunkirk Little Ship
MTB102 (Motor Torpedo Boat) was launched in 1937 and saw active service in 1939 and 1940 mainly in the Channel. She crossed the Channel eight times during the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk in 1940 and was the third last vessel to leave French waters. She was transferred to 615 Water Transport Company RASC (Royal Army Service Corps) in 1943 and renamed Vimy.
She carried Winston Churchill and General Eisenhower on their review of the ships assembled on the south coast for the D-Day landings. At the end of the war, she was sold and converted into a private motor cruiser. Kelso Films agreed to refurbish 102 as a WWII MTB for the 1976 film The Eagle Has Landed starring Michael Caine, and after filming, she was returned as a fully operational sea going vessel. She is cared for by the MTB102 Trust.
Lydia Eva
Lydia Eva was the last steam drifter built at King's Lynn in 1930 and operated out of Great Yarmouth. Lydia Eva fished along the East Coast and North Sea for nine years. The RAF bought her in 1939, using her in a variety of roles until she was laid up in 1969. Acquired by the Maritime Trust in 1971, she was restored as a floating museum and was based in Yarmouth until she joined the trust's fleet in London in 1986. She was leased by the Lydia Eva Charitable Trust in 1990 and restored in Lowestoft thanks to a Heritage Lottery Fund grant. Entry Adult £2, child free.
Izambard
Izambard is a Dutch-style barge built by John Pinder and Sons (Worcestershire) to tour the wider UK inland waterways and is capable of coastal passages in fine weather.
RASC Fast Launch Humber
The Humber was built in 1945, she saw over 30 years of active service, initially with the Royal Army Service Corps and, from 1965-76 with the Royal Corps of Transport, ending up in Hong Kong.
Following her return to the UK, she was loaned to the Junior Leaders Regiment in Wiltshire until 1989. She spent much of the 1990s at Portsmouth Naval Base and moved to Norfolk in 2005 for restoration.
HMC Protector
Built in 2002, initially for the Finnish border guard, HMC Protector is a customs patrol vessel.
Samarbeta
The Samarbeta is a Trent Class lifeboat based at RNLI Great Yarmouth and Gorleston. Samarbeta, which means working together in Swedish was named by Princess Alexandra in 1996. Sunday only.
MV Confidante
The MV Confidante is a coastal survey vessel owned by Gardline.
The Sowenna, a Cornish Pilot Gig and the Edward Birkbeck, the former Winterton-on-Sea lifeboat will also be on display on the quay.
• Opening times are tomorrow 10am to 6pm and Sunday, 10am to 5pm.
• The festival is organised by Greater Yarmouth Tourist Authority in association with Seajacks UK Ltd.
• For more information visit www.maritime-festival.co.uk
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