Maritime Centre or museums:

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Maritime Centre or museums:

HOPEFULLY REPORTING ON SOME GOOD ONES.

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Eyemouth Maritime Centre:

The beautiful fishing town of Eyemouth with its listed quayside would be a tourist magnet if it were uplifted and transplanted to Cornwall. Yet it is virtually on the A1 only 50 miles from Edinburgh and 60 miles from Newcastle and in the Borders. It is close to the entry of the Firth of Forth which now gives access via the Forth Clyde canal to the West Coast, a natural port of call with its deep water harbour for craft coming from Scandinavia and the Low Countries.

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SEA an incredible array of boats from all around the world from one of the UK's largest collections of historic vessels

With luck more will occur:

Eventually, the plan is to move the bulk of the collection down from Eyemouth and display it properly at the Cardiff site.

The collection has now grown to about 400 craft and is in storage at various locations around the UK

The other display centre is the Tithe Barn at Beale Park, on the Thames near Pangbourne. Near the site of the annual boat show, it was opened briefly last year, then closed again for further development. Its full opening, with around 40 river craft and sailing dinghies, is scheduled to coincide with this year's Beale's Park Boat Show (8-10 June). Plans for an all-weather, purpose-built centre at Beale are the design stage, and could open within the next five years.

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SS. Robin:

Worlds oldest complete steamship.

Newham Council in East London granted SS Robin a permanent berth at the western end of the Royal Victoria Dock. The berth is just under the northern end of the "Boris Cable Car" and will have a fixed gangway to the shore. A visitor centre ashore is part of the scheme!

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Cutty sark:

During the year of the convoy (2013), please spare a thought fot the Cutty Sark:

In the wall at the southern end of the ship’s dry dock is a large sculptural piece. This is the memorial to the Merchant Navy. When it was decided that the ship would find a permanent new home here in Greenwich as a museum, it was felt that Cutty Sark would also be a fitting place to commemorate the men of the Merchant Navy.

The memorial was designed by the sculptor Maurice Lambert. Born in Paris in 1901, Lambert began his art training through his apprenticeship to the sculptor Francis Derwent Wood. He was a sculptor in bronze, stone, wood, concrete and glass of figurative and abstract subjects.

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The Cutty Sark will be paid tribute to in both one of the stamps and it's own first day cover.

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MN STAMPS WILL BE ISSUED SEPTEMBER 19th 2013:

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