Hulk Reach

The Hulk Reach is the part of the Medway off the Hulkham yard at Old Green, named for the dismasted hulls lying in a row along it as storehouses and lodgings. One serves to receive men who have entered for the Crown's ships, and a powder hulk rides apart further down, marked by a lamp, with a cable's length kept clear around her. Copper sheathing is being stripped from the hulls by boat, a sheet or two a night, and the yard and the Medway Association have both put up rewards.