Vessel A-Z

Royal Navy officers

Museum Ref No: F2d_0005
Group of seven officers from "H.M.S Poole", on board ship; World War Two 1939-1945
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Sailing dinghy "Poppy"

Museum Ref No: Wills_65
"Poppy", owned and helmed by Edward Hibbard Wills.
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Sailor's injuries.

Extract from Salisbury Journal 1 March 1756. "Lucky Misfortunes" aboard the vessels "Peter and Sally" and "Elizabeth".
Newspaper

School children on Harbour cruise

Museum Ref No: F4c_0011
London school children on a Harbour cruise in Davis's "Felicity", "Sandbanks Queen" and "Dorset Queen".
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Seizure of the General Wolfe 1797

Brief account of unsuccessful seizure of the brig General Wolfe by French privateers in Oct 1797. Extract from The Poole Pilot June 1867 page 1.
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Southern Ocean Shipyard

Museum Ref No: F4d_0043, F4d_0043a
Southern Ocean Shipyard in 1970. Moored at the the Hamworthy Quay site is an Ocean '71 designed by E.G. van der Stadt (possibly Robin Knox Johnston's "Ocean Spirit").
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Success

Success - sailing vessel moored on Poole Quay in October 1904. Built as an East Indiaman in 1790. Used as a prison ship (hulk) in Australia. Exhibited as a curiosity. Source Poole and Dorset Herald 6th & 20th October 1904.
Factfile

Swedish 3-mast sailing ship "Orion"

Museum Ref No: F4b_0168
Swedish 3-mast sailing ship "Orion". Photographed from Poole Bridge.
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Taverner, Master of the "Thomas and Robert" Drowned, 1747

Transcription of extract from Salisbury Journal 12th January 1747 reads: "The "Thomas and Robert", Taverner, from Newfoundland for Poole, is taken by the French and carried into Brest. The master was unhappily washed overboard and drowned."
Newspaper

The "Clememt", 1740

Transcription of extract from Salisbury Journal 2nd December 1740 reads: "The ship bound from Newfoundland to Poole, mentioned in our last to have been carried into St. Sebastian proves to be the "Clement", Ketcher, master."
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