Prize cup won by the sailing barge 'Memory' in 1959.

Plain silver cup with two reeded bands and two scroll handles. The top section is inscribed: 'THAMES SAILING BARGE MATCH JUNE 15TH 1959. STAYSAIL CLASS SECOND PRIZE. PRESENTED BY THE SHIPOWNERS PROTECTION & INDEMNITY ASSOCIATION'.

The other side of the cup has the faint remains of a previous inscription, 'class' still being legible. The cup is still with its original handwritten prize card and ribbons.

The sailing Barge 'Memory', 65 tons, Reg. No. 113758, was built for Fison's the Ipswich fertiliser company in 1904 by John & Herbert Cann at Harwich. She spent most of her working life between London and Ipswich. She was bought by the Sailing Barge Preservation Society in 1956 and won a number of prizes in Barge matches. 'Memory' carried her last commercial cargo in 1959, and following a collision on the Thames she was laid up at Lower Halstow.

By 1964 she had been bought by Kemp & Beer Ltd of Maldon and used for sail training and charter work. In 1968 she was bought by the Fellowship Afloat Charitable Trust and used as a residential centre at Tollesbury, Essex. In March 1990 her interior was destroyed by fire, and she was relocated to the saltings at Tollesbury, where she still lies. The Fellowship Afloat Charitable Trust still has the 'Memory's' wheel and a collection of photographs.