HMS at Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby 3rd - 4th September

Wives and Sweethearts....

"How did Elizabeth Cook, Elizabeth Bligh ('my darling Betsy') and the wives of other officers and seamen cope with the long absence of their husbands or promised sweethearts?

What were sailors favourite love tokens? How did women with children manage on their own? Our exhibition explores these questions with some rarely seen relics of Elizabeth Cook and other women. They shine a light on the varied lives and loves of voyagers’ wives, their pastimes and networks, as well as some of their personal tragedies.

And then there were some whose ‘Returning Hopes’ of their promised sweethearts were dashed by broken promises, one example being Sir Joseph Banks. And there were always a few of the crew who hoped to stay in the South Seas and live a life with their Polynesian sweethearts!"

Source: http://www.cookmuseumwhitby.co.uk/whats-on/2016-exhibition

HMS will be involved in this exhibition at the weekend 3rd-4th September - along with our other representations of naval activity from the C18th -19th. We will be inside the museum and outside in the yard.