Donald Crowhurst
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Donald Charles Alfred Crowhurst was a British electronics engineer, businessman, and amateur sailor who disappeared while competing in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, a single-handed, round-the-wo
Crowhurst in 1968
Tribute to Crowhurst, New Quay Inn, Teignmouth
Part of one of the bows of the trimaran Teignmouth Electron. When photographed in March 2011, little identifiable as a boat remained of the wreck above a beach on Cayman Brac. Showing the name Teignmouth and part of the hole where a souvenir hunter has removed Electron.
Teignmouth Electron
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The Teignmouth Electron was a 41-foot trimaran sailing vessel designed explicitly for Donald Crowhurst’s ill-fated attempt to sail around the world in the Golden Globe Race of 1968. It became a ghost
Teignmouth Electron (without mast and rigging) shortly after its boatyard launch in September 1968 (still frame from contemporary newsreel or amateur footage, as reproduced in the documentary "Deep Water")
Full scale replica of the Teignmouth Electron photographed in Teignmouth harbour during the shoot for the 2017 movie "The Mercy", June 2015
Teignmouth Electron (boat), remains at Cayman Brac, by Packmatt, 2001