Thekla is a cargo ship which houses a music venue of the same name, moored in the Mud Dock area of Bristol's Floating Harbour.
Abandoned and unloved for seven years after running aground off the coast of Northern England, the Thekla was left half submerged in a derelict English dock in Sunderland before being bought by Ki Longfellow-Stanshall and her husband Vivian Stanshall in 1982. They assembled a small crew, most of which had no previous nautical experience, prepared the ship for sea and in 1983, sailed for 6 days and 6 nights and 632 nautical miles around the East coast of England before reaching their destination in Bristol’s Floating Harbour and eventually being transformed into one of Bristol most iconic music venues.
Abandoned and unloved for seven years after running aground off the coast of Northern England, the Thekla was left half submerged in a derelict English dock in Sunderland before being bought by Ki Longfellow-Stanshall and her husband Vivian Stanshall in 1982. They assembled a small crew, most of which had no previous nautical experience, prepared the ship for sea and in 1983, sailed for 6 days and 6 nights and 632 nautical miles around the East coast of England before reaching their destination in Bristol’s Floating Harbour and eventually being transformed into one of Bristol most iconic music venues.
