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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
Email: enquiries@nmmc.co.uk
National Maritime Museum Cornwall is indebted to: The Museum enjoys a close partnership with many companies which have assisted in different ways. The money we raise through these partnerships makes an invaluable contribution to enhancing our displays and meeting our financial responsibilities. Corporate Members A & P Falmouth Falmouth Harbour Hayes Parsons Insurance Pendennis Shipyard…
A unique celebration of the sea Beginnings National Maritime Museum Cornwall is a fully independent museum, a development of the original FIMI (Falmouth International Maritime Initiative) partnership created in 1992 and the result of collaboration between the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich and the former Cornwall Maritime Museum in Falmouth. The National Small Boat Collection The…
Shush was built to a very high standard by F C Morgan-Giles of Teignmouth in 1925. At only 8.5 ft long she must be one of the smallest boats with an inboard engine (a rare single cylinder Watermota petrol engine) ever built. Shush was used as a yacht tender but vessels of similar design would…
Cosi fan tutte is the newest of three Flying Dutchman dinghies in the museum’s collection. Dutch Courage (BAE0006) is an early example from the 1950’s, whilst Rodney Pattison’s Superdocious (BAE 0022), from 1968, may be regarded as representing the zenith of wooden construction. The first plastic boats came into the class in around 1960 but…
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…
Merlin III is a part of a whole family of fast motor boats with good performance in all conditions which were designed by Bill Maloney beginning with the 12ft Sorcerer in 1961. It is likely Merlin III is one of a group 16 or so 16ft plywood hulls built c. 1967. The inspiration for the…
This windsurfer was purchased in California in 1982. Although not an example of one of the earliest designs, it was produced by Windsurfing International Inc., the company founded by Hoyle Schweitzer and Jim Drake which claimed to be the originator of the concept and which sought to patent the term “Windsurfer” and various aspects of…
Developed in California in the late 1960’s, the first European demonstration of a windsurfer/sailboard is believed to have been at the 1972 yachting Olympics event in Kiel. This windsurfer dates from 1973 and is believed to be probably the first to be imported into the UK. Manufactured by the Dutch company Ten Cate it was…
Fleur was a pram dinghy used by the King family together with their motorboat JONIK (see BC42). She was built by Percy Clemens at Fowey.
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