Category: Heritage
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Irish boats at Dragonflies’ 70th
Waldringfield Sailing Club, River Deben, Suffolk By Julia Jones. The weekend of September 5th-7th 2019 saw Waldringfield Sailing Club celebrating 70 years of its 14ft (4.3m) one- design ‘Dragonfly’ class (1949). And in a return… […]
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The Fully-Rigged Ship
The full-rigged or fully-rigged ship was an excellent example of early industrial standardisation, writes Dan Houston. With the trade of the sailor being international there was a need to rig ships in the same way,… […]
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How Nelson was carried home
Trafalgar Day, 21 October, not only marks one of Admiral Nelson’s great sea victories, in 1805, but also his demise and the beginning of a tradition known as the Immortal Memory – where basically you… […]
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1939 yacht’s escape from the Baltic
The summer of 1939 would be the last chance for several years that yachtsmen could take extended cruises to places like the Baltic. Author Julia Jones relates how her father sailed to Poland in… […]
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Online archive for the 6-M class
3 October 2019 – London, England. The International Six Metre Class Association (ISMA) is delighted to announce the launch of a ground breaking online class archive at 6metrearchive.org. The Six Metre Class has a long… […]
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60 years since Wharram crossed Atlantic
It’s sixty years since James Wharram and his two German girlfriends crossed the Atlantic Ocean from West to East aboard the 40ft catamaran Rongo. The boat was designed and built in the West Indies after the… […]
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Cornish Maritime History Day 2019
The eighth one-day programme dedicated to the history of maritime Cornwall is being held at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, in Falmouth, on Saturday, 5th October 2019. Researchers, whether in universities or based at home,… […]
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D-Day relics granted government protection
REMEMBERING D-DAY – SECOND WORLD WAR SITES GIVEN PROTECTION Second World War concrete training landing craft, sunken tanks and armoured bulldozers, and components of Mulberry floating harbours all given heritage protection D-Day on 6 June… […]
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A new Thames Sailing Barge
Classic Sailor went aboard the new Thames Sailing Barge Blue Mermaid. We joined her in the Blackwater in Essex for a sail out into the Thames estuary and round to Brightlingsea A new… […]
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