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Mention Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and their maritime history, and many people will have a vision of the Cornish and Islanders of the past as wreckers, purposely luring ships on the rocks through the use of false lights, and then killing the survivors and plundering the cargoes. Alternatively, other stories focus on the…
Remembrance of wars and those who fought in them naturally centres around the fighting forces and those who not only made the ultimate sacrifice but those who returned mentally and physically scarred along with the unsung heroes who returned to pick up civilian life and move on. This paper looks at a different perspective of…
The paper surveys the development of commercial steam navigation in Cornwall, concentrating on contributions by local entrepreneurs. It examines three areas of mercantile activity under steam well represented in the county: coastal and short sea liner operations, ocean tramping, and carriage of coastal bulk cargoes, and places each into the wider context of their development…
This paper looks at the various ways in which yachting has been represented in words, pictures and photography and at how these representations specifically apply to the history of yachting in Cornwall. Cornwall has a rich and varied yachting history since Victorian times. Of particular interest are the Falmouth artists, Tuke and Hemy, who specialised…
By the 1820s the Admiralty controlled both the Falmouth Packet Service, delivering mails to the growing empire, and the Hydrographic Service, responsible for supplying all the navigational charts required by naval vessels. This paper investigates several aspects of the relationship between these Admiralty departments and uses as a case study the publication of the first…
Until the end of the Second World War, employment on Britain’s docks was largely casual. This paper outlines the development of the National Dock Labour Scheme, created in 1947 from the experience gained during the wartime operation of the docks, its progress and demise in the main Cornish ports. Cornish involvement is viewed as part…
The perceived romance of Cornish smuggling is, in this paper, put into the context of its existence as part of the life of the fishing community in Cornwall during the late eighteenth century and into the nineteenth century. By drawing on that extensive but scarcely used contemporary primary source, the Custom House Letter-Books for the…
Zephaniah Job is best remembered as ‘The Smugglers’ Banker,’ who organised and financed smuggling from the port of Polperro in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. However, Job, like many other merchants in the many small ports around the United Kingdom, was not a specialist, and engaged in a wide range of trades. His…
In maritime history, there is still a very strong image of men going to sea while the women stayed at home, on shore, to mind the children and possibly to run a business. The research about maritime women at sea is still in its infancy. So far, captains’ wives and stewardesses are the only two…
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