Ambitious plans and some progress One major ambition for many of the supporters of SS Freshspring is to see her at sea again under her own power, and of course, if at all possible to be able to take a trip on her. One step which will help us understand if this is a possibility […]
We have had a great start to the season with three events so far: our free National Lottery Open Day (Sunday 26th March), our Sea Shanty and Pasties event (1st April) and our first ‘official’ Freshspring open day to the season on Easter bank holiday Sunday (9th April), where we had plenty of Easter themed […]
We are still smiling ear to ear with the fantastic news: The National Lottery Heritage Fund have awarded us a grant of just over £141,000 to support a project spanning two open seasons (running just over 18 months)! This grant is hard won, so the team here at Freshspring have been thrilled to say the […]
What a fantastic night of melodic, foot stomping sea shanties! Thank you to everyone who turned out for our ‘Sea Shanty and Pasties’ Event with the wonderfully talented band, The Pluckateers. We sold out in record time and found ourselves sadly having to turn sales away; we even had people turning up at the boss’ […]
We are pleased to share our 2021 dry-dock survey report undertaken whilst in dry-dock at the Appledore shipyard earlier this year. The purpose of this report was to ascertain the general structural condition of Freshspring and to report on work undertaken. “The structural condition on lower parts of the hull is very good and provided […]