Bob Roberts left Fleet Street journalism to work on Thames sailing barges, and as skipper of the Cambria he was the last master of a British commercial vessel under sail. Along the East Anglian coast he picked up songs from bargemen and countrymen, and he recorded with Peter Kennedy for the BBC.
Bob Roberts
Singer and storyteller; Thames sailing barge skipper
- Born
- 1907, Hampreston, Dorset
- Died
- 1982
Further reading: Wikipedia