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National Maritime Museum Cornwall Trust Discovery Quay Falmouth Cornwall TR11 3QY
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Time balls were visual signals to provide mariners with an accurate time by which to set their chronometers. Over 150 were established worldwide in the late nineteenth century and they were obsolete by the 1920s. Convinced that it would attract more shipping to Falmouth there was a long and anxious debate about the establishment of…
Rosevear and Sloggatt was a merchant partnership operating from Boscastle, on the North Cornwall coast in the early nineteenth century. They were in the slate trade and were shipping agents and shipowners with their vessels often being chartered out to carry coal for the mines. They were Lloyd’s Agents and the reports of their activities…
The bicentenary of the wreck of the Queen Transport, in Falmouth Harbour, in 1814, is fast approaching. With great loss of life, it was a particularly distressing local event, which became a wider symbol of maritime tragedy. This paper seeks to commemorate those involved in the disaster, by summarising and collating the various sources of…
The great Cornishman, Sir Arthur Quiller Couch, is known for editing the Oxford Book of English Verse, and for The Art of Writing. The latter being his inaugural lectures when appointed as Professor of English at Cambridge. He wrote many short stories and books, but his fictional work was often based on good historical information…
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