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Children (Under 18s) £9.00
Children (Under 5s) Free
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National Maritime Museum Cornwall Trust Discovery Quay Falmouth Cornwall TR11 3QY
Tel: +44(0)1326 313388
Email: enquiries@nmmc.co.uk
A multi award winning museum The quality and creativity of our learning programme and visitor experience has been recognised in a number of prestigious awards. Here are just some of them… 2017 – Best Gallery – What’s on Cornwall Awards 2015 – The Sandford Award – for the outstanding quality of our education work 2014 – Winner…
In the early nineteenth century Falmouth was a confident, prosperous medium-sized port. It was one of the world’s largest natural harbours, it offered a ‘first and last’ haven on the busy waters of the western approaches and it was home port for the celebrated Post Office Packet Service. Many ships arriving in the Channel from…
During the first half of the nineteenth century the port of Falmouth was a busy trade centre within the British Empire, playing host to a number of ships and visitors from home and abroad. Through the General Post Office Packet Service, the East India Company, and other trading vessels, Falmouth was in frequent contact with…
During the late C16 and early C17 there was a marked increase in contact between Muslim ‘Turks’ from the Ottoman Empire, the ‘Moors’ from the independent country of Morocco, and the West Country. Some of this was peaceful but piracy inevitably played a part. Emboldened, the interactions grew ever-closer to the SW coast during the…
The lives of the two brothers John and James Dunkin encompassed so many recurrent themes of eighteenth century picaresque and romantic fiction that they would not be out of place in a Cornish historical novel. They were orphans and apprentices, artisans with aspiration who became privateers, and ship and mine owners; and they experienced many…
Compulsory pilotage was introduced in the first decade of the nineteenth century and local men in selected ports were officially licensed for the first time as pilots. This brought opportunity for some local men and safer arrivals and departures for ships but higher costs for merchants and ship owners. Throughout the nineteenth century, these factors…
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