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Adults £18.00
Children (Under 18s) £9.00
Children (Under 5s) Free
Open Daily 10am - 5pm
National Maritime Museum Cornwall Trust Discovery Quay Falmouth Cornwall TR11 3QY
Tel: +44(0)1326 313388
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17 March 2017 – 7 January 2018 Step into the sights and sounds of one the greatest survival feats in British maritime history This exhibition tells the story of Captain Bligh, challenging the Hollywood depiction of the famous mutiny on HMS Bounty. In April 1789 Bligh and his loyal men were cast adrift mid-ocean in…
Reuben Chappell (1870-1940) is one of this country’s best known ship portrait painters. An artist who spent his entire working life making portraits of ships for seamen, his work is in the best tradition of pierhead painting – painted not for galleries or art collectors, but for the men whose lives and livelihoods were intimately…
Sir William Hillary, a retired soldier who lived on the Isle of Man, was the visionary behind the formation of the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (later the RNLI) in 1824. Before the formation of the Institution, a few dozen local lifesaving stations had been set up but there was no…
William Fife (1857-1944) has a reputation for being one of the world’s foremost yacht designers. His father and grandfather had also been boatbuilders and had a construction yard at Fairlie, on the Clyde. Fife’s yachts achieved a reputation for superb craftsmanship and a good turn of speed. His clients included Sir Thomas Lipton, the grocery…
In 1972 this boat saved the lives of the Robertson family as they drifted in the Pacific Ocean for 38 days. Lyn and Dougal Robertson had bought a 43ft, 1920s schooner, Lucette and planned to sail around the world with their children; leaving Falmouth on 27th January 1971 to embark on the adventure of a…
By the 1820s the Admiralty controlled both the Falmouth Packet Service, delivering mails to the growing empire, and the Hydrographic Service, responsible for supplying all the navigational charts required by naval vessels. This paper investigates several aspects of the relationship between these Admiralty departments and uses as a case study the publication of the first…
This single handed sailing dinghy was designed and built by the well known Norfolk boat builders William Starling and Sons of Blakeney in 1929 for Miss Patience Hardcastle of Godalming in Surrey. She had been taught to sail by Mr. Starling whilst on holiday in Norfolk and had initially sailed in the family’s heavy boat,…
In October 1767, William Pearse, a man of over 80 was hanged outside Launceston, the first victim of the newly-strengthened 1753 Wreck Act. Whether he was guilty of a crime greater than others had committed or whether he was simply being used as an example is unclear. Perhaps his age prevented him running away as…
This Royal Charter was granted on 5 October 1661, and marks the transition of the humble village of Smithick (or Smithwick) into the great town of Falmouth. Written in Latin and illustrated with an image of King Charles II, the Charter granted the new town the right to local self-government, and the right to elect…
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