Welcome to Essex Heritage Workboats

  • ESSEX

    Essex working boats have a long and colourful history that is greatly intertwined with the riverside communities that flank the Essex Coastline of the Thames Estuary.

  • HERITAGE

    Vessels that were built in the Coastal Communities of Essex for a variety of Maritime Commercial Activities. Each type of vessel containing unique design traits making them indicative of not only their requirements to work in a geographically location but of the wider standing within a social context of a time period.

  • WORKBOATS

    In recording and documenting the history of the already identified 130 remaining active vessels we can begin to make social history links with the communities