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UNIQUE 18th CENTURY CARGO PASSES THROUGH ROBIN HOOD

Polish items1 First it was 13 growling lions, then the world’s largest aircraft, now items of sailors’ clothing recovered from the bottom of the sea after 200 years…

It has led to officials at Robin Hood Airport scratching their heads and wondering whether incoming cargo can get any stranger!

Polish Items 3 The hat, stockings, shoes and mittens, found in the Baltic Sea by an archaeology unit at a Polish Museum, are being flown in from Poland by Wizz Air.com to be on exhibition at the Captain Cook Museum in Whitby for the first time in the UK.

This comes after a group of lions rescued from a neglected Romanian zoo were flown into the Doncaster Sheffield Airport to live in Doncaster’s Yorkshire Wildlife Park.
 
The rare garments from the wreck of the Whitby ship, the General Carleton, were discovered and excavated in 1995 by the Polish Maritime Museum in Gdansk where they found the artefacts had been remarkably preserved in the cold mud of the Baltic.

The articles have been loaned from the Polish Museum because of their historic links to the region and will land at the airport at 8.55pm on February 24.They will be on view as part of the special ‘Northward Ho!’ exhibition which opens on 1 March.

Jodi Stow, marketing and communications manager at Robin Hood Airport, said: “We welcome a variety of flights with specialist cargo to and from the airport but this delivery will be by far the oldest we’ve ever had!

“We hope that all the historians and nautical followers in the region will enjoy seeing such precious artefacts which have never before been brought back to their origins.”

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