Category Archives: National Historic Ships
New approaches to funding maritime heritage
The webinar will bring together a range of experience on funding including:
– Rose Ravetz, experienced global sailor and production manager for Wind, Tide, Oar a film by Huw Wahl, currently in production, which explores “the absorbed attention and artistry of engineless sailing, and the lives of those few exceptional seafarers prepared to go to sea whilst relying on the natural elements alone” and was the subject of a very successful Crowdfunder as well as other grant support;
– Felicity Lees, Operations Manager at Pioneer Sailing Trust, will describe how the Trust is taking forward its Development funding of £61,300 recently awarded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to help the Trust progress their plans to apply for a full National Lottery grant at a later date .
Over five years a partnership between Pioneer Sailing Trust and Vanguard Restoration Foundation will restore two iconic historic vessels, reach and attain maximum benefit for community audiences and deliver a sustainable business model for their long term operation.
The project aims to improve wellbeing, health and mental health within the community, equip trainees with new skills, increase capacity to restore and maintain heritage and other vessels, and build community engagement with national heritage.
Panellists for the webinar will also include John Megoran, Chairman of the Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle Trust who is overseeing fund-raising for a major rebuild of the ship and Hannah Cunliffe, Director, National Historic Ships UK
The Webinar is on Wednesday 1st February from 19.30 to 21.30.
Free tickets can be obtained by registering at Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-approaches-to-funding-maritime-heritage-tickets-514077418397
2021 Awards feature Barges and those who maintain them once again
Just been watching the National Historic Ships annual awards.
Many congratulations to Tim Jepson of Thames Sailing Barge Trust who won the Individual Marsh Charitable Trust Award for Volunteers. Tim’s award marks his wonderful commitment to the two barges owned by the Trust, training volunteer helpers with their maintenance, and all the work he has done himself on sb Centaur.
Congratulations also to Fraser Gray for winning the Photographer of the Year award for his picture of Thames Sailing Barges at Dawn at Gravesend Town Pier – fantastic picture shown below.
And good too to see that the mighty Edme features as one of the pages of the 2022 National Historic Ships calendar.
Reminder named Historic Ships Regional Flagship of the Year 2017 for East Anglia
We are delighted that sb Reminder has been named by National Historic Ships as its Regional Flagship of the Year 2017 for East Anglia. Reminder can usually be seen at Maldon Hythe Quay. She carries 
out an extensive programme each year, and again this year is acting as “home” for the Sea-Change Sailing Trust’s charters with young people.
The press release from National Historic Ships is given below.
Your Editor is particularly pleased to see that the Regional Flagship for the South West is Our Daddy – not a sailing barge but a Looe fishing boat, claiming to be the last of her type built. I had the pleasure of seeing her at her home base of Brixham not long after she changed hands and of talking to her new owners. She is a beautiful vessel being very well looked after.
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PRESS RELEASE
National Historic Ships UK announces FLAGSHIP OF THE YEAR AWARD
Following eight successful years of very different kinds of vessels from around the UK winning this award, National Historic Ships UK has again extended the scheme for 2017.
This year, National Historic Ships UK decided the applications more strongly represented Regional rather than National event programmes and it was decided to award four Regional Flagships to recognise the commitment that many vessels give to their home cruising grounds. In announcing this further extension of the scheme Hannah Cunliffe, Director of National Historic Ships UK, said: “I am delighted that we are able to offer these Awards once more and publicise the range of cruising programmes which these vessels are planning for the coming season. Our four 2017 Regional Flagships have all shown their enthusiasm for raising the profile of UK maritime heritage at the events they are attending and we look forward to working closely with them in the months ahead.”
The Award criteria requires vessel owners to come forward with seasonal programmes to engage the public through festivals, demonstrations, on-board cruises, quayside visits, educational programmes, participation in races and similar activities. Flagships are expected to promote actively the role of National Historic Ships UK by distributing associated PR material and flying the flag as our ambassadors. The four Regional Flagships will each receive a grant of £250 to be spent on the vessel, along with a special Regional Flagship Broad Pennant denoting the year in which the award was made.
The 2017 Regional Flagship Awards have been given to: Caronia (Regional Flagship of the Year 2017 for the Solent) – for her commitment to education and engagement with maritime heritage involving an intensive series of visits from her current home port in Chichester to her historic home port of St Ives, via Yarmouth, Falmouth, Penzance, Plymouth and Dartmouth.
Daniel Adamson (Regional Flagship of the Year 2017 for the North-West) – for her commitment to education and engagement with the North-West’s maritime heritage involving an intensive series of visits extending to Ellesmere Port, Liverpool, and Lymm. http://www.thedanny.co.uk/
Our Daddy (Regional Flagship of the Year 2017 for the South West) – for her commitment to education and engagement with the South West’s maritime heritage involving an intensive series of visits extending to Brixham, Looe, Falmouth, Dartmouth and the Isles of Scilly.
Reminder (Regional Flagship of the Year 2017 for East Anglia) – for her commitment to education and engagement with East Anglia’s maritime heritage involving an intensive series of visits extending to Maldon, the Medway, and London. http://www.top-sail.co.uk/
Each Flagship will be presented with its broad pennant by a member of the NHS-UK team.
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