The three-masted schooner the Sir Winston Churchill was built to take part as the British entry in the Tall Ships Race from Falmouth to Denmark. The vessel was designed by Camper and Nicholson and laid down in 1964 in Hessle, Yorkshire and built by Haven Shipyard and Richard Dunston Ltd after a public funding appeal by the Sail Training Association. In April 2001 a farewell to Schooners party marked the selling off of this schooner and its 1968 sister yacht the Malcolm Miller.