[MR] BBC: Medieval Fishing Boat Restored

[Garth Groff and Sally Sanford]

Noble Friends,

A medieval fishing boat that was blown to pieces in WWII has been restored
at the Leeds Discovery Center in England.

In 1863 the boat was found buried on a Yorkshire farm near the salubriously
named Giggleswick Tarn, and was donated to the Leeds City Museum. It was
blown into 45 pieces by a German bomb in 1941. Some fragments eventually
went to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich for study, where it was
determined that the boat was a dug-out carved from a single tree around
1335. The pieces were returned to Leeds in 1988. Now the boat has finally
been reassembled and placed on display.

The illustrated story is at
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-62725048 .

Yours Aye,


Lord Mungo Napier, Laird of Mallard Lodge  🦆