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The National Maritime Museum Cornwall is located in a harbourside building at Falmouth in Cornwall. The building was designed by architect M. J. Long.,〔(Information on Mary J. Long, architect, from Long/Kentish Practice website. )〕 following an architectural design competition managed by RIBA Competitions. The museum grew out of the FIMI (Falmouth International Maritime Initiative) partnership which was created in 1992 and was the result of collaboration between the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich and the former Cornwall Maritime Museum in Falmouth. It opened in February 2003. It is an independent charitable trust and, unlike other national museums, receives no direct government support. Its mission is to promote an understanding of boats and their place in people's lives, and of the maritime heritage of Cornwall.〔(NMMC website )〕 It does this by presenting the story of the sea, boats and the maritime history of Cornwall. ==Boats== The Museum manages the National Small Boat Collection,〔(NMMC website – our collections page. )〕 which came from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, in addition to its own collection of Cornish and other boats. Famous boats on show in its collection include: *''Waterlily'', a Thames steam boat built by Thornycrofts in 1866 *''Fricka'', a gentleman's day sailor built by William Fife *Champions like the ''Ventnor'' planing hydrofoil; the Flying Dutchman ''Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'' (''Superdocious'' for short) in which Rodney Pattisson won a gold medal at the Mexico Olympics; ''Rita'', the Finn in which Ben Ainslie won Olympic gold medals in 2004, 2008, and 2012; and "Defender II" * ''Thunder and Lightning'' the International 14 which was the first boat to use a trapeze competitively *Early examples of popular sailing dinghies like Mirror No.1, Firefly No.1 and Dart No. 1 *''Curlew'', the Falmouth Quay Punt in which Tim and Pauline Carr sailed to the Antarctic *''Wanderer-W48'', a Wayfarer (dinghy), in which Frank Dye sailed to Iceland and to Norway from Scotland (surviving four capsizes and a broken mast during a Force 9 storm) (). The museum is the country's premier museum for boats and maintains a national register of small boats (under 33-foot) and invites owners of historic craft to register them.〔(NMMC website – National Small Boat Register. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Maritime Museum Cornwall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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