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Of going to a river pageant
“... offered eight shillings, £1,500 in today’s money”
“I’ve got to see that, that’s a once-in-a-lifetime moment; we’ll be making a whole day of it...” It was my hairdresser who was speaking, and she was referring to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant, on the River Thames, Sunday 3 June. A thousand boats are expected in the greatest waterborne extravaganza since Charles II and Catherine of Braganza’s pageant from Hampton Court to Whitehall on 23rd August 1662. That day was a Saturday, and the tide was just about on neaps (full moon was on the 29th). The great diarist Samuel Pepys (below) noted that he could not see water on the Thames for the number of boats, nor could he see Their Majesties; getting out on the water was impossible. He even offered a boatman
eight shillings – that is around £1,500 in today’s money in terms of relative income in those days, but to no avail.
The tides for Sunday 3 June are halfway between springs and neaps – HW at London Bridge is at 13:39, but the predicted height of 6.9m will not be as high because the Port of London Authority will close the Thames Barrier at 09:30 in the morning, stopping more than half of the 6.2m range of tide flooding upriver. And it is due to remain closed until around 23:30 that night. This will help air-draught under the bridges, which can get a bit tight at HW, and will also ease the river flow, making navigation a little easier in a reduced tidal stream, but some of the smaller boats will still have a choppy ride of it.
The Queen would like us all to have something of red, white and blue apparently – so we sourced a natty silk waistcoat and hanky on pages 62 and 63. I commissioned our cover, incidentally, from the marine artist Geoff Hunt less than a month before we went to press, giving him way less time than he’s used to. He’ll be showing (and selling) it at the Royal Society of Marine Artists exhibition at Lon- don’s Mall Galleries in October.
CLASSIC BOAT JUNE 2012 7
ROWBARGE GLORIANA BY ADAM SHAFTESBURY
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