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What’s Happening With Peggy?
It has been over nine years since Peggy, believed to be oldest surviving schooner in the world, was removed from her home in the Nautical Museum
Manx National Heritage may be about to solve one of the great mysteries of the sea, when is the Peggy going to return to her Castletown home?
It has been over nine years since Peggy, believed to be the oldest surviving schooner in the world, was removed from her home in the Nautical Museum.
Castletown Heritage has announced that MNH CEO Connie Lovel will provide an update on the Nautical Museum and The Peggy later this month.
The talk will be at 7.30pm on Wednesday February 21 at St Mary’s on the Harbour, Castletown.
The meeting is open to everyone and donations are welcome.
Peggy
Over to our friends at MNH for a bit of background:
The Peggy was designed and built for George Quayle who was from a prominent Manx family and who had a career in finance, commerce and politics.
The land adjacent to Bridge House, now the Nautical Museum site, was acquired for the express purpose of running a sailing boat and it includes George Quayle’s original boathouse and private dock which were built specifically to suit the Peggy.
George Quayle lived in Castletown between 1757 and 1835. His wider family played a key role in the administration and economy of the Isle of Man during a time of constitutional change, Revestment. Four generations held the office of Clerk of the Rolls at Castle Rushen. The family were heavily involved in high politics as well as the military, economic and social life of the island. Quayle himself was a prominent Manx businessman and politician during the Napoleonic Wars and at the height of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
To see her returned to her Castletown home, MNH appointed a multi-disciplinary design team to develop a new home for the Peggy at the Nautical Museum.
The estimated cost for the full works was £5m with the charity aiming to raise half and seek capital funding for the rest.
