After vanishing for 62 years and ending up as a coffee table, a mosaic that adorned the bridge of one of Emperor Caligula’s lavish pleasure barges has returned to Italy. The 2,000-year-old, 5 sq. foot red, green and white pattern was recovered from the bottom of Lake Nemi — 19 miles south of Rome — … Read more
Moment police raid illegal rave on boat in north London and arrest organiser who has already been fined £10,000 for similar lockdown bash – as officers in North Yorkshire catch reveller hiding in the ATTIC at party The Met Police’s Marine Unit found 30 people on a canal boat in Hackney Officers raided the boat … Read more
The owner of one of the country’s oldest working horse-drawn barges has been forced to stopped her river trips after clashes with ‘snowflake’ canal users. Jenny Roberts, who owns Iona, has closed the Godalming Packetboat Company after 35 years, citing criticism from people using the towpath. Her horses, Buddy, Alizee, and Espoir have been retired … Read more
So much for being a NARROW boat! Fire crew saves family after their canal barge gets WEDGED in lock and starts SINKING West Midlands Fire Service called to Botterham Lock in Wombourne, at 10.22am Three people left stranded on the canal boat after it got wedged in the lock Fire crews rescued all three on … Read more
The quirky boats that now rule on dry land, from a 19th Century barge in Suffolk to a former ferry in Cornwall A 19th Century Dutch barge moored on the River Deben in Suffolk sleeps four A Cornish farm is the setting for The Wild-de-go, once an Isles of Scilly ferry Wake up in the … Read more