Nancy Blackett’s appearance at the Maritime Woodbridge Festival this weekend (11th-12th September) coincides with an important anniversary in her long career. It will be exactly seventy-five years ago on Sunday that Arthur Ransome purchased her in Poole Harbour, for £525, and immediately changed her name from the previous owner’s choice, Electron, to Nancy Blackett, […]
Nancy Blackett, Arthur Ransome’s Hillyard, is 75 years old this year. To mark the occasion, the Nancy Blackett Trust has produced a souvenir cotton teatowel and a pack of notelets, which have been designed by Claudia Myatt. The designs feature images and quotations associated with the Arthur Ransome’s book ‘We Didn’t Mean to Go to […]
Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett sailed into the Dutch port of Vlissingen (Flushing) on the morning of 7 June, seventy years, almost to the day, after the author himself completed the same voyage in the same boat. The Nancy Blackett Trust has mounted two previous North Sea crossings in Nancy. The difference between them and this […]
Ten years after the launch of the original appeal for funds to purchase and preserve Arthur Ransome’s boat Nancy Blackett, the Nancy Blackett Trust is opening a new fund designed to secure the future of the historic vessel. The aim is to create a reserve fund ready to meet any unforeseen emergency repairs, or more […]
2006 is a year of special anniversaries, including the 75th anniversary of the building of Nancy Blackett, and the 10th anniversary of the launch of the original Nancy Blackett Appeal, which led to the formation of the Nancy Blackett Trust. The two key events planned to celebrate these anniversaries are a special Gala AGM, to […]
Double celebrations are in order next year, as not only does Nancy Blackett celebrate her 75th anniversary, but it is also the 10th anniversary of the Nancy Blackett Appeal, which resulted in the purchase of Nancy and the formation of the present Trust. Various celebratory events and activities are being planned, details of which will […]
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