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National Maritime Museum Cornwall Trust Discovery Quay Falmouth Cornwall TR11 3QY
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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…
Albatross Marine was founded by two ex– Fleet Air Arm pilots, one of whom was the son of the managing director of Rolls Royce. The Albatross was the first class of speedboat to be produced in quantity, in this country, after World War II. They were used for a variety of leisure activities including water-skiing…
Curlew is a Falmouth Quay Punt which started life as a working boat at the turn of the 20th century. She has since had a long and distinguished career as a leisure boat and has travelled many thousands of miles, from the Arctic Circle to the mainland of Antarctica. Designed and built in Falmouth by…
“In fourteen hundred and ninety two,Columbus sailed the ocean blue…” So run the opening lines of a piece of doggerel, the origins of which are uncertain. At least five hundred years before Columbus, however, the Vikings are believed to have crossed “the ocean blue” and been the first Europeans to discover the “New World”. Four…
Granta, a British firm, was established in 1932. Between that time and the 1960s it sold thousands of canoes and kayaks from a range which peaked at 48 models. A number of its boats were built as folding models, probably to compete with the likes of German Klepper canoes. As the company’s publicity material proudly…
The Dghaisa has been the chief work boat of Malta for centuries and its origins can be traced back thousands of years. High ended boats such as these have been found in palace wall carvings from ancient Iraq. Older paintings of dghaisas show they have changed little over the last 400 years, although it was…
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…
These boats were based on the Thames working skiffs but were more heavily built, and were used by watermen for various uses including ferrying, fishing and taking people out for pleasure trips at Margate, Kent in the summer months. Haughty Belle was reported to be the last Kentish Wherry to be used at Margate in…
Claritie is a 1956-built typical example of the common wooden and later GRP built pram dinghies which were carried aboard yachts as a tender. Designed and constructed by the well known designer Austin “Clarence” Farrar Claritie was an early experiment in cold moulding plywood. This system of manufacture was developed to improve the more traditional…
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