…. after you’ve re-supported ‘Victory’. This mighty tree, 10 storeys high, weighing 25 tons (and that’s just the lower part of it) is as much in need of TLC from the team at The National Museum of the Royal Navy as any other part of the ship, and is next in the queue (much more to come) for project leader Andrew Baines; whose other half must by now be feeling about the great ship much as PM Anthony Eden’s wife did at the time of Suez, when she said she felt as if the canal was flowing through her drawing room! Anyway out the mast had to come, drawn from the ship like a giant tooth through four decks, from where it has stood since being replaced in Victorian times. No simple task. First – unpick and remove the rigging…
THE MAST IS A MUST…
21 July 2022
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About Rob
Rob is a TV producer, reporter and camera operator with 30 years of experience at the BBC, Channel 4 and ITN, in news, factual and documentary production. He is a four-time award winner, whose awards include a coveted Royal Television Society award for his work on Channel 4 News. His association with the Maritime Foundation goes back to 1995 when he won the first Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award for a series of reports that led to a major documentary on the loss of the bulk carrier Derbyshire.