Summary
W hen young Devon shipwright Will Stirling heard he had been commissioned to build a new yawl for the Royal Navy's most famous warship, HMS Victory, he knew he was not only contributing to a renaissance in traditional boatbuilding but also forging a new link with his family's illustrious maritime past.
Will, who lives on Dartmoor, runs a traditional boatyard at the historic Morwellham Quay on the Devon bank of the River Tamar, where his speciality is recreating revenue cutters and smugglers' luggers from the late 18th to mid 19th century.See the full content of this document
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Shipwright Builds On a Maritime Ancestry
But the 29-year-old's connections with Britain's maritime past are also ancestral. He is able to trace back a family link to Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, Britain's greatest naval hero, whom he describes as a "very great uncle".
Will's very great grandfather, Admiral Sir Robert Barlow, at one time Deputy Comptroller o...See the full content of this document
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