Heading to the Gloucester Tall Ships Festival this Bank Holiday Weekend? Keewaydin has sailed into Gloucester Docks for the event.
Built in 1913 as a Lowestoft sailing smack (a type of fishing vessel), viagra Keewaydin spent her early years trawling the banks of the North Sea, until 1937 when she became a cargo vessel sailing the Baltic Sea.
During the Second World War, Keewaydin ferried refugees from Denmark to neutral Sweden, and in one particular trip, transported 420 cammandos to their destination.
She was converted into a yacht in 1963 and had the distinction of entering the very first Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race in 1972.
After being used as a charter ship in the Mediterranean for many years, she became a training vessel, and has moved home ports from Cardigan to Falmouth.
Festival-goers who snap up one of the £6 passes – valid for all three days of the Tall Ships on May 23-25 – will be able to explore the dry dock and look under the incredible ship like never before.
The Festival Passes allow admission to the festival, unlimited access to all the tall ships, the Gloucester Waterways Museum and the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum, and accompanied under-16s go free.
Admission to the Tall Ships festival is £2 each day for adults without a Festival Pass and free for accompanied under-16s. To buy Festival Passes online, visit www.gloucestertallships.co.uk.
A £1 booking fee will apply to all Festival Passes bought online.
