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thePacket (Falmouth, UK) reports that the “Dawn Treader” (really the Bristol ship “Matthew”) sailed into Falmouth last Saturday evening just in time for Narnia Weekend at the National Maritime Museum in Cornwall. Many families climbed aboard the ship for tours, their only chance to do so. According to museum director Michael Sweeney,
“Our Chronicles of Narnia weekend has been a huge success. We’ve had lots of delighted visitors, coming along to see this incredible spectacle – including a few people in fancy dress! We have to say a huge thank you to everyone involved with the Matthew, for bringing her to see us and sharing her incredible story with our visitors.”
Click here to read the full story. The “Dawn Treader” should be headed for London by now, if she isn’t already there, where newlyweds Paul and Courtney Martin (NarniaFans) will board her for a week-long sailing trip around London. Check back this week for a video blog of their journey!
UPDATE: ‘icarus’ has given NarniaWeb a full report of his tour of the “Dawn Treader” this past weekend, with lots of photos!
No sooner had we got to the top of the hill, than we were presented with the somewhat weird and incredible sight of the Dawn Treader herself sailing into the bay. It was kind of bizarre just to see a Narnian ship sailing out on the sea in the real world, and even more surreal to see it pass by the thoroughly modern industrial scenery of the Falmouth Docks, and then through the Falmouth marina area filled with hundreds of luxury yachts and fishing boats.
The next day. . .
On board the ship they had a couple of nautical based activities for the kids, and everyone was allowed to walk around the ship and take photos, and speak to the members of the crew. I have to say, the Dawn Treader additions made to the ship were really well done, and of a far higher quality and level of detail than I had been expecting. . . .[It] did look absolutely stunning – looking at it sitting there in the harbour you almost had to convince yourself sometimes that it wasn’t actually the Dawn Treader.
icarus says the six winners of the European Dawn Treader competition (and their guardians) had been living on board ship for the past few weeks and had been dropped off the evening before, after an “award ceremony.” The “Dawn Treader” will pick up two more groups, then sail back around the Cornwall coast. Click here for the full story, plus fifteen more photos!
Images courtesy of falmouthpacket.co.uk and narniaweb.com