Rye Harbour Image Library

Picture No:	212
Courtesy of:	Mary Lestocq
Year:	1980

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Coaster Ivy - B

One of the regular coasters visiting the wharf.
Picture Added on 12 January 2007.

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Hi, stayed overnight in Rye & visited Rye harbour last week hoping to see a ship or two ! on the Rye Wharf, no luck, I went into the office of the Wharf & spoke to a very helpful/interesting gentleman who told me about the trade & development of the Wharf (Rastrum Ltd Shipping & Warehousing), I have a shipping Web Site www.shipspotter.co.uk which covers mostly the shipping around North Foreland but i am keen to get a photo of a coaster on the River Rother either in or outbound from the Wharf, i will credit one with the Photo if I am lucky enough to receive one to put on my site if that is o/k, i believe ther is a ship due around now 18th-19th Feb 07 with cargo of Talc frm Rotterdam. Nice to see the Photo of the "Ivy-B"
Regards all at Rye thank you for very interesting break Chris & Cris(Wife)
Added by Chris on 18 February 2007.

What a lovely picture of the Ivy b i used to work on the Georgena b there were 4 coasters there other two were Doreen b and Jennifer b.
Added by Robert Berritt on 19 January 2011.

I hitched a ride over to Rye on the Ivy B from Rotterdam in March 1981. I was working at the Missions to Seamen in Rotterdam at the time. (Yes, I was the "Mission Man!") Great times! Great people!
Now please can anyone tell me what year & month the "Ivy B" got sunk for gun-running in the Med, possibly somewhere off Cyprus? I'm working on a painting of the "Hoomoss" that I photographed from the "Ivy B" somewhere off Dungeness, and just wanted to put a bit of history of the 2 boats behind the picture.
Thanks a lot!
Added by Paul Mallett on 02 August 2011.

I got a job as D.H.U. (deckhand uncertificated)on the Ivy B from Nov 1981 to July 1982. I was a professional yachtmaster but needed to get commercial seatime to get a Seamans Discharge Book and seatime towards a second mates certificate. The Ivy B and Georgina B were both running out of Rye at this time owned by a company called Van Broek Marine. Each ship ran with a Skipper, a Mate and three deckhands. There was no engineer on board, once a month a shoreside engineer came on board and gave the engine a lookover and assured us that it would run for another month! There were little notice plaques at various places on the engine saying such things as "2 squirts of oil every 3 hours" or "Turn greaser every 2 hours". We followed this advice and amazingly, although we had many adventures on our trips over to the continent going as far afield as the Rhine, I don't recall any major engine failures. Wonderful days of my youth! I wish I could re-live them!
Added by Cedric Hellier on 16 January 2012.