Dolly Pentreath
The Dolly Pentreath is a traditional
Cornish fishing lugger.
The Dolly Pentreath is a traditional Cornish fishing lugger and was built in StIves, Cornwall in 1993 from plans housed at The British Science Museum 100 year old Lug Rig called "The Godrevy".
Licensed to sail from any port with 12 persons, 60 miles offshore. She has an experienced crew. She looks good and sails well. She is based in St. Ives, Cornwall, but will travel anywhere.
The Dolly Pentreath has been used
in the film industry.
The Dolly Pentreath has been used in the film industry e.g. Period Dramas and Commercials.
Present credits include:
POLDARK
TWELFTH NIGHT
(Shot at St. Michael's Mount)
T.D.K. / KINEXUS PC COMMERCIAL
STREETMATE
HOLIDAYS ON A SHOESTRING
Why Have We Named The Boat "Dolly Pentreath"
The History...
DOLLY PENTREATH was reputedly one of the last people to speak the Cornish Language as her native tongue and is a ancestor of the vessel owner and family. She died some 200 years ago.
In recent years, this ancient Celtic language has undergone an enthusiastic revival.
Dolly was from the parish of Paul, next to Mousehole, pronounced "Mowzel", was married to a fisherman, and had an unenviable reputation.
She sold fish, smoked her pipe, drank flagons of beer with the best and spoke proper old Cornish with a real twenty-two carat stamp upon it.
This was the real old lingo; hot, sweet and strong, so that those who heard her never forgot.
Dolly Pentreath was a fine woman, with a voice you could hear as far away as Newlyn. It rattled round the rafters like brazen trumpets blown by tempests. She had the heart of a lion, and it was said that when a press-gang landed in search of men for the navy, Dolly took up a hatchet and fought them back to their boats, and so cursed them in old Cornish that the crew never ventured back again.
There still exists the very room in the Keigwin Arms in which Dolly was wont to take her pint and her pipe at her ease, and the window out of which she would thrust her hard old face and shout to the fishermen when they came to their landing-place.
The old lady was keen on her bargains, and would trudge into Penzance with her wicker basket on her back, and profit from the gullible, according to the rules of the wily. This is her legend, to which it may be added that she had the reputation of being a witch. Dolly lived to one hundred and two, and then departed, carrying with her in her queer old brain the most complete vocabulary of the Cornish language on Earth.
She died poor in 1777 and was buried in the parish churchyard of Paul, where people came in shoals to see her monument and read the inscription.
The monument is set in the churchyard wall and was erected in 1860 by Louis Lucien Bonaparte, a descendant of the great Napoleon. He was helped by the then vicar of Paul, Rev. J. Garret. Cut in stone is a transcription of the 5th Commandment, "Honour thy father and thy mother" in old Cornish.
The Dolly Pentreath Construction
The Dolly Pentreath Construction
The Dolly Pentreath is a traditional Cornish fishing lugger and was built in St. Ives, Cornwall in 1993 from plans housed at The British Science Museum of a 100 year old Lug Rig called "The Godrevy". Dolly Pentreath is the first traditional lugger to have been built in over 65 years. She took only six months to build and won us many bets!