HIGH AND DRY: The Suhaili is taken away from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich by a Dartford company which transported a little bit of history from Greenwich to Falmouth using a 90-tonne mobile crane. Beck and Pollitzer dismantled and transported the Suhaili boat from its current home at the Greenwich Maritime Museum to its new home in Falmouth.
The all-timber boat was made in India in the 1960s for a solo around-the-world voyage made by Robert Knox Johnston in 1968. The trip took 10 months and the vessel has had pride of place in the Greenwich museum since 1998. Now the Suhaili is to be returned to the water at Falmouth and so it is making a 270-mile trip across land for this purpose.
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