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Description: | The maritime collection is the main theme of this museum. It includes the Clovelly Herring boat, c.1880 with masts and sails; an Appledore salmon boat, c.1948 with oars and gear; 18th century cannon; railings from the pier at Westward Ho!, destroyed by storms in the 1880s; and a figurehead of Lady Mary carved by John Butler in 1993.
There are shipwrights, caulkers, sailmakers and coopers tools; and navigation instruments including compasses, an octant, sextants, traverse-board parallel rules, a telescope, lead, logs and early radar equipment.
There is a significant collection of half-models made in local shipyards; a ship's wheel; binnacle with compass; engine room telegraph; nameplate and porthole from MV Farringay.
The Customs collection includes a chest; girthing chain; Sykes hygrometer; officer's slide rule; pistol; sword; and handcuffs. From HMS Bideford, there is a model, the ship's bell, badge, cap ribbon and two small watercolour paintings. There is an RNLI marroon, lifebelts from named vessels and medals for lifesaving. Ships models include two model steamships of the Tatum Line, five schooner/ketch models; World War II landing craft; two Tudor ships models; one Viking longboat model; one medieval boat model; a model of HMS Tees; and one of MV Roma, a local steamer. There are working models of a rope walk and a triple expansion engine.
Among decorative woodcarving are a figurehead, a fiddlehead, a cat-head, tillers, ships' name-boards and an officer's sea-chest. | Subjects: | Maritime | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Odun House
Odun Road
Appledore
Bideford,
EX39 1PT | FAX: | 01237 422 064 | Telephone: | 01237 422 064 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:3079 | Go to resource |
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