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Standing by the lifeboat station at Askam-in-Furness, looking at the beach and the OAKDALE.
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Close-up looking bows-on at the Flat, the access ladder visible at the Stbd bow.
Drawings of OAKDALE from Dave Keenan.jpg
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Standing by the lifeboat station at Askam-in-Furness, looking at the beach and the OAKDALE.
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Recommended Reading
Websites
http://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/register/2024/oakdale
http://www.runcornandwidnesweeklynews.co.uk/news/nostalgia/ray-miller-daves-battle-live-7861988
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/uk.rec.waterways/LdpxvmxzN8M
www.keelsandsloops.org.uk/downloads/doc.../36-slabline-issue-033.html
http://www.canaljunction.com/craft/mersey.htm
Recommended Reading
Books & Magazines
The Mariner's Mirror Vol 58
No. 3 & 4, article entitled Flats
by D.G. Bennet
Mud Flats booklet edited
by Michael Stammers
Mersey Flats and Flatmen
by Michael Stammers
Mersey & Weaver Flats
by Edward Paget-Tomlinson
Schooner Port
by Bert Starkey
Sea Breezes for December 1971,
article entitled Mainly About Flats
by Frank Ogle
And my own book:
Shipyards of the Upper Mersey
by Robert Ratcliffe
How You Can Help
Please pass the word about this important vessel and help try to garner more support.
Look out for further posts on this website or the Facebook page. These will have adverts asking for help on specific days when the aim is to get working parties together to do some work on OAKDALE.
Mersey flat OAKDALE
Refit Society
(MORS)
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