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Digital Roundup

10/6/2020

 
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I thought the lock down would be time of relaxation - I was wrong!

The "Memories of Dunkirk" book was safely off to the printer and a chance to relax beckoned - or so I thought! It has turned out to be busier than ever with Medway Queen projects of one sort and another. Still, as one of Terry Pratchett's Disc World characters says, "I do this thing because I choose to do it". The object of the exercise was to maintain our profile and do what we could to make up for loss of revenue to the ship due to Covid-19. 
So, let's summarise what's been going on digitally and give you the chance to browse some of the new stuff on the website. Alongside each item is a link button so you can get to it quickly as you work through this list.
​The first enhancement was a "virtual tour" on the website so you could at least see the current state of the ship without physically visiting. The history pages of the website were upgraded and tidied - mostly with new illustrations.



A conversation with the team at Heritage Open Days led to the "History in Miniature" page on our website and the "8 Curious Objects" post on theirs.



We entered the 2020 Flagship contest with National Historic Ships UK and were delighted to be appointed Regional Flagship for the South East on the strength of our digital profile and other outreach work. As soon as we can we'll "hoist" the pennant on the website and, later, we'll do it properly on Medway Queen.​

The Dunkirk anniversary period ran from 26th May to 4th June but we were unable to make the trip to Ramsgate as the events there had been cancelled. The  Dunkirk Day By Day blog was initiated with daily updates and posts on Facebook and Twitter. That has now been reformatted within the history pages.

All of this has taken many days of work. Fund-raising is always on our minds, especially with regular income cut off, so, to supplement the other donation channels Richard has set up a Localgiving sponsorship page for the Dunkirk blog and other digital activities. That will be open for a while yet - PLEASE CONTRIBUTE if you can.

Thanks for your interest and support
Richard Halton 10 June 2020​
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