EAW038192 ENGLAND (1951). The Old Salt Works at Stan Marsh and vessels off Port Victoria, Isle of Grain, from the north, 1951. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.

See also EAW002986 for HMS Maidstone moored in Portland Harbour on the 3rd October 1946.

Deadmans Island (NB no apostrophe per OS maps).

The only road and rail bridge over the Swale, linking Sheppey with mainland Kent. This bridge, a bascule type, was built in 1904 and replaced by the Kingsferry vertical lift bridge in 1960. The bridge in the photograph was closed for 10 months from 17th December 1922 after a Norwegian cargo ship 'Gyp' collided with it. Source: Wikipaedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsferry_Bridge

The Swale

Ladies Hole Point

HMS Agincourt, launched in 1865 and converted to coal hulk C.109 in 1909. She was one of three Minotaur Class armoured frigates and carried five masts with full rigging in addition to a two cylinder steam engine driving a single propeller. Agincourt was built by Laird, Son & Co at Birkenhead. She became a training ship in 1893 and was renamed HMS Boscwen III then HMS Ganges II in 1908. She was moored off Sheerness until scrapped in 1960. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agincourt_(1865)

HMS Marmion - initially J381, later renumbered M381. An Algerine Class minesweeper. Built at Port Arthur in Canada and launched on the 15th June 1944.

HMS Avon Vale (F175), moored as part of the Sheerness Reserve Fleet. HMS Avon Vale was a Type II Hunt Class destroyer, built at the John Brown yard on Clydeside in 1940. She served mainly in the Mediterranean, but also on Atlantic convoys and in support of the D-Day landings. She was finally broken up at Sunderland in 1958. For further details see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Avon_Vale_(L06)