page_title: Teignmouth Electron
hierarchical_section_title: Teignmouth Electron
caption_attribution_description: English: Part of one of the bows of the trimaran Teignmouth Electron (q.v.), now a total wreck above a beach on Cayman Brac. Showing the name Teignmouth and the hole where a souvenir hunter has removed Electron. Photographed March 2011.
context_page_description: 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. She became a ghost ship after Crowhurst reported false positions and presumably committed suicide at sea. The journey was meticulously catalogued in Crowhurst's found logbooks, which also documented the captain's thoughts, philosophy, and eventual mental breakdown. Sold after its recovery, the vessel passed through several subsequent hands, being re-purposed and re-fitted as a cruise vessel and later, dive boat, before eventually being beached at Cayman Brac, a small Caribbean island, where its remains were still visible as at 2019 but in an advanced state of decay.
context_section_description: 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. She became a ghost ship after Crowhurst reported false positions and presumably committed suicide at sea. The journey was meticulously catalogued in Crowhurst's found logbooks, which also documented the captain's thoughts, philosophy, and eventual mental breakdown. Sold after its recovery, the vessel passed through several subsequent hands, being re-purposed and re-fitted as a cruise vessel and later, dive boat, before eventually being beached at Cayman Brac, a small Caribbean island, where its remains were still visible as at 2019 but in an advanced state of decay.
caption: Remains of part of one of the bows of the beached Teignmouth Electron on Cayman Brac, photographed in March, 2011, showing the name Teignmouth and part of the hole where a souvenir hunter has removed Electron.
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