Programme

DateEvent
9th September 2025Poole Harbour Explorer Cruise Aboard M.V. “Dorset Queen”
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24th September 2025
12 for 12.30pm
Poole Maritime Trust Autumn Luncheon at RMYC
John Megoran – ‘Keeping Paddle Steamers Afloat’
16th October 2025
8pm
Peter Lamb & Chris Woods – TBC
20th November 2025Alan Watson – HMS ML 1387 Harbour Defence Motor Launch
& The Medusa Trust
7th January 2026
12 for 12:30pm
Poole Maritime New Year Luncheon at RMYC
Mike Randall ‘Smuggling ‘ – from 1797 the stories of local Dorset
People involved in this ‘trade’.
15th January 2026
8pm
Kit Pearce – ‘Closure, Storage & Re-Opening of Poole Museum.
19th February 2026Philip Beale – 2008-2010 Phoenician Ship Expedition.
19th March 2026
8pm
David Bailey – Wildlife Photographer.
15th April 2026
11 for 11:30am
Poole Maritime Trust AGM & Luncheon at RMYC
Speaker: Robert Heaton – Luncheon to follow

All Poole Maritime Trust/ Travellers’ Tales Talks will take place at:

Royal Motor Yacht Club Sandbanks, Poole BH13 7RE

PMT members may purchase drinks from the main bar if the upstairs bar is not manned.

There are disabled facilities on the ground floor and facilities on the first floor. If you arrive by car there is parking on the main road, Panorama Road. If arriving by Taxi the main entrance to the RMYC is off Old Coastguard Road.

You can contact the Programme Secretary by email here.