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National Maritime Museum Cornwall Trust Discovery Quay Falmouth Cornwall TR11 3QY
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This unique boat was built primarily to take part in the Boat Procession at Eton College to celebrate the birthday of King George III on 4th of June. The King’s interest in Eton College is commemorated annually by the procession, and there are references to a procession of boats as far back as 1784, but…
Built 1866, by John Thornycroft Designer John I Thornycroft, Chiswick, Waterlily is one of the world’s earliest steam launches in existence. Her hull, made from riveted wrought-iron plates is still in working order. Designed and built by John Thornycroft for his father, the famous sculptor Thomas Thornycroft, Waterlily helped set the fashion for wealthy people…
Shrimp is the first of the Norfolk Punt class, one of Britain’s oldest high performance classes. The class evolved directly from traditional working gun punts used for hunting wildfowl in the shallow waters of the Norfolk Broads. At the end of his wildfowling, a huntsman would erect a small mast and sail home. The mast…
In 1954 a group of dinghy sailors from clubs in the Solent area collaborated with Fairey Marine’s Charles Currey, an Olympic silver medallist in Finns, in an attempt to come up with a boat that would be modern, light and able to cope with the often rough Solent conditions, but suitable for family sailing as…
On January 9th 1956 two Enterprise Dinghies crossed the Channel between Dover and Calais in the middle of the night. This remarkable achievement rocked the sailing world and brought international recognition to the designer Jack Holt. Both these dinghies are now in the Museum’s collection. Jack Holt (1912-1995) was born into humble stock. The son…
The National 18 was born in 1938 following a design competition organised by the then YRA (now RYA) and Yachting World magazine. The original idea was for an 18 foot sailing dinghy, suitable for day sailing, yet fast enough to be of interest to racing sailors and at a reasonable cost. The plan was to…
The Essex One Design dates from 1919, when it was commissioned as a “one-design” boat for the Essex Yacht club together with the nearby Alexandra Yacht Club, both sailing the tidal waters of Southend on Sea. Another local and not dissimilar design, the Thames Estuary One Design, had originated a few years earlier in 1911,…
Kayaks have been used in the Arctic for thousands of years for hunting and as a means of transport, from Siberia through Alaska to the east coast of Greenland. Together with the Umiak open boat and the dog sled, sealskin kayaks have made it possible for Inuit peoples to survive in the harshest of conditions.…
Joy is a TV Times Dinghy, one of several examples in the Museum’s collection from the 1950’s onwards of a dinghy sponsored by a newspaper or magazine. Other examples include the well-known Mirror (sponsored by the Daily Mirror) and Enterprise (sponsored by the News Chronicle) and the less well known SigneT (sponsored by the Sunday…
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