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National Maritime Museum Cornwall Trust Discovery Quay Falmouth Cornwall TR11 3QY
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This strange craft, L’Egaré II, arrived in Falmouth on 21 August 1956, having crossed the Atlantic from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Falmouth, Cornwall in 88 days, carrying three men and two kittens, who became the first men in history to achieve this particular feat of endurance. The voyage of L’Egaré II began with a mad…
Samuel Riley Valler was born on 15 February 1884 in Falmouth. He had an interesting career rising from seaman to Master, service in two world wars, and mentions in despatches in both. He experienced many exciting developments and changes during his time at sea, which spanned the period from the end of the sailing ship,…
This cartoon is one of a series of eight drawn by Cornish professional surfer, Sam Bleakley. The series follows “A day in the life of Surfer Joe”. During his day, Joe checks the surf forecast, leaves early to catch the best waves before heading to work in a surf shop. After work he heads out…
Like many other British families, the Knight family took their holidays in Cornwall. From the 1920s the family enjoyed the sea and sun in Bude on the north coast. This photograph was taken on a trip in 1957, and Geoffrey Knight is on his old 1920s wooden bodyboard. Geoffrey, his parents and his siblings came…
There is nothing new about the idea of a folding boat. Some of the Titanic’s lifeboats were folding boats and were successfully launched before the ship sank, but any lifeboat associated with the Titanic probably would not have received rave reviews so not many were built. Folding boats present all sorts of challenges to their…
Boat building is a low profit margin business and as a result the history of boat building is littered with bankruptcies and short production runs. So all the more remarkable is the longevity of the German company, Klepper, which has been producing folding kayaks for over 100 years. In the early years of the twentieth…
Plymouth Waterman’s barges, with a wide roomy stern designed to accommodate both passengers and stores, were used at Devonport serving naval and merchant ships. They were rowed by a single oarsman using 10ft spoon-bladed oars pivoted in pairs of thole pins. Although the traditional work of these boats has disappeared, some have survived by being…
In 1969 two friends, Ian Fraser and Kim Stephens, both successful sailors, formed a company in Restronguet, Falmouth, called Panthercraft. They applied for a licence to build the Tornado catamaran, which in 1966 was chosen for prospective Olympic status. It’s designer, Rodney March, provided Ian with a Tornado as a demonstrator. In those days Tornados…
The Paralympic Games, first held in 1960, allow world-class disabled athletes to compete against each other on a level playing field. They are run ‘in parallel’ with the Olympics Games and are held two weeks after the Olympics in the same host city. Sailing was first demonstrated at the Atlanta Paralympics in 1996 and then…
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