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National Maritime Museum Cornwall Trust Discovery Quay Falmouth Cornwall TR11 3QY
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Email: enquiries@nmmc.co.uk
General Enquiries National Maritime Museum Cornwall Trust Discovery Quay Falmouth Cornwall TR11 3QY Tel: + 44 (0) 1326 313388 Email: enquiries@nmmc.co.uk A company limited by guarantee | Registered in England and Wales | Reg no: 3446298 | Charity no: 1067884 Bartlett Maritime Research Centre & Library Tel: + 44 (0) 1326 214579 (Tues – Sat,…
Welcome aboard National Maritime Museum Cornwall You’ll find us on aptly named Discovery Quay overlooking Falmouth Harbour. Join us on a voyage of discovery through 15 galleries over 5 floors exploring the overwhelming influence of the sea on history and culture. We are also home to The National Small Boat Collection and The Cornwall Maritime…
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A sailboard/windsurfer dating from around 1985, a model which can be seen as following on from the Ten Cate model (see Ten Cate Windsurfer BAE0111). This board was manufactured by the French company Dufour and was a very popular design in its day. It was this popularity that encouraged BiC, the French ballpoint pen manufacturer,…
Triton is an open double ended clinker built ship’s lifeboat which previously belonged to the pre-war tug Triton, which in the 1970s was used as a seamanship school in St Katherine’s dock in London. When the school closed the lifeboat was given to the museum. Such craft have a rather colourful history, in one sense going back…
Thamaku is a less than half size replica of a design of outrigger canoe commonly seen all across the Pacific islands. This design of craft was used as a general purpose vessel with the main hull constructed of canvas stretched across a timber frame. This replica is around 10ft 6 in in length but full…
This RNSA (Royal Naval Sailing Association) type of sailing dinghy was a modified version of the 14 ft One-Design Island Class, designed by Charles Nicholson and Uffa Fox in 1935. In 1937 the Admiralty adopted the class, with some modifications, specifically to adapt it for use aboard the Navy’s warships. Its purpose was to provide…
Designed by the Swedish canoe designer Rickard Sarby in 1949, the single handed Finn class racing dinghy was adopted for the Olympics in 1952 in Helsinki, Sarby himself taking the Bronze medal. The Finn replaced the previous arrangement of having a different single hander design for each Olympiad. Predecessors as Olympic Monotypes, the term originally…
In 1980 the Flying Dutchman class claimed to be the fastest two man centreboard dinghy in the world and even today it remains a very fast design. It originated at trials by the International Yacht Racing Union in 1954, soon achieved international status and was subsequently used for the Olympic games from the 1960s through…
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