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Getting here National Maritime Museum Cornwall Trust Discovery Quay Falmouth Cornwall TR11 3QY
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“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…
Apart from London Bridge, built in 1209, the only means of crossing the Thames below Staines until the mid 18th century was by boat. The Thames wherry was an open…
Some designs of dinghy prove longer-lived than others. Although changes in materials, and indeed fashions, can lead to changes in popularity, another key factor can be whether the class rules…
Born in 1901, Percy Mitchell, of Portmellon, near Mevagissey in Cornwall, was variously described by some of his more technically qualified contemporaries as “one of the finest traditional boat builders…
Although a distinct design in her own right, in many ways Sea Queen looks like a smaller version of the better known Looe Lugger or Falmouth Working Boat. Mevagissey Toshers…
Commander John Watkinson, an experienced and accomplished Naval Officer, left the Royal Navy in 1958 and bought a boatyard, Kelly and Hall, to try his hand at a new venture.…
White Owl, an innocuous looking boat typical of the thousands of small craft built in Falmouth yards over the last few centuries, was built by Thomas Jackett in 1908 and…
Witch is a clinker built open boat with a transom stern, approximately 14ft long and was used for catching lobsters and crabs up to six miles out to sea. In…
On 4-5 June 1976, Derek Hutchinson (leader), Tom Caskey and Dave Hellawell paddled their kayaks from Felixstowe Ferry, Suffolk to Ostend, Belgium, over 100 miles of open sea in 31…
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