We’re delighted to have the Arkansas Ramblers playing on board today! You can still catch this performance for free or join us at 2.30pm for their next performance! #ArkansasRamblers #theTallShip #Glasgow
The Arkansas Ramblers are performing now 🎶
The Arkansas Ramblers are here performing today until 3pm! FREE to enter and sure to brighten up your afternoon! 😁🎶
Jock has been continuing his adventures and researching the Glenlee's past. He visited the very house Captain David George built in 1910 as well as helping Captain George's great great granddaughter, and husband Cledwyn locate the Captian's gravestone!
🐈⚓Jock set off this week, from The Tall Ship at Riverside, in search of the last captain of Islamount! Here he is in his campervan getting a good night’s rest before arriving in Dinas Cross, Wales, to conduct his research! ⚓🐈
#Jockthecat has been on some fantastic adventures this month! Thank you for all your photos... tag us on Instagram using #jockthecat. You can buy Jock from The Tall Ship at Riverside gift shop for £8.
Today we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Glenlee returning to the Clyde from Spain to begin the restoration process and a new life as a museum! Captain Alistair Miller was part of the crew of three that brought the ship back and has served 25 years on the ship committee. 🥂
Great to have The Arkansas Ramblers performing on the weather deck today as part of Festival of Museums! Fantastic weather for it! ☉
We are so proud of our two students from Information Studies at University of Glasgow, Chen Chen and Levi, who displayed their academic poster presentation based on their work placement within our museum and education department for their Museum Studies Masters degree. Both students have produced fantastic projects that will have a great impact here at The Tall Ship. Well done and thank you for all your hard work!
Our pirates had a fantastic Easter weekend taking 189 children on Pirate Easter Egg Hunts! 🐣🐰. They are now having a well earned rest but our Learning Team will be on the ship over the rest of the holidays doing their Deep Sea Drop-in craft activities, 3rd-13th April, 12pm-3pm, FREE.
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We have been enjoying Weaving and Shaking this February weekend, crafting with cargo! There are two more days left of the FREE activity, 12pm-3pm Tues 13th and Wed 14th Feb.
Join us from the 9th-14th of February for our FREE Weavers and Shakers activities! We will be crafting with cargo this holiday! Fill and decorate your own glitter rice shaker or have a go at weaving with paper and wool!
Some before and after progress photos of our hull survey currently ongoing in the Cargo Hold. All work is being done in preparation for Dry Dock 2021 to ensure her structural stability before she goes. The crew have been working hard removing 46 tonnes ballast and cleaning the bilges in preparation for shot blasting by. Keep checking our Facebook for updates on our hull renovations! The Tall Ship at Riverside relies on the generosity of the public to maintain and preserve the ship - if you would like to contribute please donate via our Just Giving page here:
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Some before and after progress photos of our hull renovations currently ongoing in the Cargo Hold. All work is being done in preparation for Dry Dock 2021 to ensure her structural stability before she goes. The crew have been working hard removing 46 tonnes ballast and cleaning the bilges in preparation for shot blasting by. Keep checking our Facebook for updates on our hull renovations! The Tall Ship at Riverside relies on the generosity of the public to maintain and preserve the ship - if you would like to contribute please donate via our Just Giving page here:
www.justgiving.com/clydemaritime
It really is amazing to see how far we have come and many younger visitors may not remember how The Tall Ship at Riverside used to look. Thanks to the hard work of numerous volunteers and donations however we have managed to come so far! If you would like to continue to support us and our restoration you can donate on our JustGiving page www.justgiving.com/clydemaritime or you can text donate: Text SHIP03 £3 to 70070.
SING anyway with Dr V are here getting us into the festive spirit! 🎄
What a fantastic day we had today for Santa's visit to The Tall Ship. He is back tomorrow 11am-3pm for only £7 per child arriving by speedboat at 10:45am! Plus we have face painting, RNLI stalls and model life boats and our Vintage Photo Booth! Don't forget, 9:30am-10:30am will be our Autism friendly quiet hour.
Happy Halloween from our very own Scary Mary 👻🎃
Scary Mary and her pirate crew are putting their feet up tonight after a successful weekend of Halloween treasure hunts! 🎃👻☠They had lots of spooky fun, thank you to all the children who helped them search for the cursed treasure!
Our office team explored Tall Ship La Malouine with her Captain Roy Kerr who was here for Clydebuilt Festival this past weekend. La Malouine is the only Scottish owned operating Tall Ship still sailing.
We had a fantastic turn out for the launch of our Captain's Gig today! Thanks again to The Chalkboard Burd for hand painting her name, it looks great!
A big thank you to Glengoyne Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky for donating a bottle of 12 year old malt whisky to toast the launch of our Captain's Gig which was made by our Anchor and Sail volunteers in our boat building workshop!
Our Captain's Gig is launched here at Clydebuilt Festival!
On our way to launch our Captains gig as part of Clydebuilt Festival!
A big thanks to Glengoyne Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky for letting us borrow their tent for our joinery workshop as part of Clydebuilt Festival!
Visitors made scrimshaw and discovered what sailors, who worked on ships like Glenlee, kept in their sea chests as part of our free Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival event which is on again tomorrow, Sunday 17th Sept, 12pm-3pm #GDODF2017
We hoisted our Red Ensign today proudly for #merchantnavyday Glenlee sailed as part of the Merchant Navy!
Tomorrow is Merchant Navy Day and we kicked off our celebrations today! We had Seafarers UK and The Watch Ashore helping out plus our fantastic Radio Officers demonstrating and teaching Morse code. Newly qualified officers from City of Glasgow College Nautical Studies were there to talk about life on a present day Merchant Navy ship! Also, our learning were making boats out if recycled bottles teaching our visitors about the importance of ballast and the correct way to store cargo! All of the above is on again tomorrow 12pm-3pm and watch out for us hoisting the red ensign at 11am! #merchantnavyday