News: Bartlett Blog

Explore the history of Falmouth’s Working Boats; the fishing fleet which dredges for oysters in the Fal, and the smaller racing fleet.

Explore the history of the oldest form of fixed-seat rowing to take place anywhere, as well as the history of Penryn Rowing Club.

Today the Cutty Sark is one of the world’s most famous ships, but it wasn’t all plain sailing for the vessel. In this Bartlett Blog we explore the ship’s history and how Wilfred & Catharine Dowman from Falmouth secured the Cutty Sark’s future.

The town of Eyemouth in Berwickshire on the East Coast of Scotland was a busy fishing port with a large fishing fleet landing huge catches of haddock and herring. In October 1881 the fishing fleet suffered a devastating disaster.

Our new major Pirates exhibition has inspired this month’s Bartlett Blog. Follow the story of the schooner, Ryelands, that was transformed from a cargo ship into a movie star.

In a recent exhibition at National Maritime Museum Cornwall, entitled Memories of Falmouth 1934 – 1969, several images were featured of the schooner Mary Barrow. The three masted topsail schooner was one of the last sailing ships plying the coastal trade around Britain in the 1930s.

In this Bartlett Blog we explore how the magic of Falmouth influenced the children’s author Beatrix Potter.

This month’s Bartlett Blog tells the story of the Hanover wreck, the attempted salvage of the ‘treasure’, the legal case which followed and a story commemorated by the renaming of the cove where the ship foundered as Hanover Cove.

On 23 September 1961 the BP Tanker British Aviator was in a collision in the English Channel with Crystal Jewel a British Bulker owned by the Athel Line. Both ships were badly damaged in what was the first, and is now said to be a classic example of a ‘radar assisted’ collision at sea.