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Calling Last Orders for your Nancy Blackett Christmas gifts!

by Nancy Blackett

It’s time for last orders for your Christmas gifts from the Nancy Blackett Shop! Choose from our fabulous range of “Swallows and Amazons” and Nancy Blackett gifts, knowing that your purchases will go to a very good cause – keeping Nancy Blackett afloat and available for everyone! Please order your Christmas gifts by Wednesday 13th December […]

Buy Christmas Offers from the Nancy Blackett Shop

by Nancy Blackett

With Christmas upon us in just a few weeks’ time, here’s our handy guide to the Nancy Blackett Shop’s special Christmas offers. Our Limited Edition 25th Anniversary Teatowel & Tote Bag Offer is still available (below), the designs of which are based in the cover of Good Little Ship: Arthur Ransome, Nancy Blackett and the […]

Christmas is coming – so here is our new 3-for-£12 offer on Nancy Blackett Christmas cards

by Nancy Blackett

Grab hold of our new special offer on Nancy Blackett Christmas cards and save 20% when buying three packs. You can buy three 10-card packs of our exclusive Christmas card designs (normally £5 each) for just £12 – saving 20%. Choose from either the “Three Ships”, “Christmas in the Shed” or “Santa Claus” designs – all are by marine […]

Nancy Blackett transits Tower Bridge – twice!

by Nancy Blackett

It is perhaps a little-known fact that Tower Bridge is legally obliged to open for any vessel tall enough to need it, free of charge (it was a condition of permission for it to be built). Openings nowadays are at fixed times to suit the convenience of the bridge, and the traffic that uses it […]

See Nancy Blackett in London at the Classic Boat Festival

by Nancy Blackett

Arthur Ransome’s favourite yacht Nancy Blackett will be open to visitors again this weekend at the Classic Boat Festival in St Katherine Docks, London. The annual boating extravaganza will also see over 40 other beautiful vintage and exquisitely preserved vessels assemble in the central basin of St Katharine Docks, including the Dunkirk Little Ships, motorboats […]

Nancy Blackett returns to Littlehampton

by Nancy Blackett

Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett has returned to Littlehampton in Sussex, as part of her three-week summer visit to the Solent. Nancy Blackett was built by David Hillyard of Littlehampton in 1931, and arrived in the port this afternoon (Thursday 22nd June) having departed from Woolverstone on Sunday morning, with intermediate stops at Ramsgate, Dover, Eastbourne […]

Arthur Ransome’s Selina King and Nancy Blackett at the NBT AGM

by Nancy Blackett

Selina King, the yacht that Arthur Ransome had built as a replacement for Nancy Blackett, visited the Nancy Blackett Trust’s AGM on Saturday, following her relaunch after an eleven-year restoration. Built by Harry King’s of Pin Mill in 1938, she recently returned there to complete the work originated in Bermuda and continued in Chichester Harbour. […]

A Flurry of Nancy Blackett Activity Days

by Nancy Blackett

The Nancy Blackett Trust has recently hosted a flurry of Activity Days, giving more local children a wonderful chance to explore Nancy Blackett, be introduced to Arthur Ransome’s classic stories and learn about the East Coast, writes Sue Coales… The Activity Days kicked off with two visits from Chelmondiston School on April 24th and 26th. […]

TARS to restore film Swallow and Amazon

by Nancy Blackett

TARS – The Arthur Ransome Society – has taken ownership of the two iconic dinghies featured in the 1974 film of Swallows and Amazons, with the aim of restoring them in time for the film’s 50th anniversary next year. Swallow was bought for £1 from the ‘SailRansome’ group which had managed her since the collective […]

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