Archive Results For: Atlantic
Note: Richard Mount, London Shipowner
There were complications for the owner of shares, like Mount who owned shares in a series of large commercial sailing vessels. Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Other (Nineteenth C) | Pacific
Subjects include: Merchant Marines
Document: The Wartime Diaries of Convoy Signalman George Robins
A personal record of life as a convoy signaller in merchant convoys during the second World War. Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | North Sea | WW2
Subjects include: Manpower & Life at Sea | Merchant Marines
The Tip of the Spear: Captain Henry Hotham and the blockade of Brest and L’Orient
The diaries of Captain the Honourable Henry Hotham from 1810 and 1811 reveal the conditions at sea during the blockade he kept of Brest and L’Orient, which required exceptional fortitude and seamanship. Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Napoleonic War
Subjects include: Battles & Tactics | Navies | Ship Handling & Seamanship
NOTE: The Wreck of the ‘Apostle’ San Bartolomé (1597)
The location of this Spanish wreck dating from 1597 has been disputed, but documentary evidence reconstructs the events which led to its loss. Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Tudors | Shipwrecks
Subjects include: Navies
Note: The Wreck of the ‘Apostle’ San Bartolomé (1597)
An examination of the possible sites of the wreck of the post-Armada San Bartolomé and its eventual location at Mundaka Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Other (Early Modern) | Shipwrecks
Subjects include: Navies
Note: The Use of Chronometers to Determine Longitude on East India Company Voyages
Evidence that a chronometer was used on early commercial voyages to determine longitude. Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Other (Eighteenth C) | Indian Ocean | East India Company
Subjects include: Science & Exploration
Note:The Galician Lugsail: An old form of fore-and-aft sail
An explanation of the characteristics of the lugsail still used in Galicia Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Other (Twentieth C) | Other (Nineteenth C)
Subjects include: Merchant Marines | Ship Handling & Seamanship | Shipbuilding & Design
Diseases Spread by Sea: Health Services and the Ports of the Canary Islands in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
In the Canary Islands the sea was as a defence against disease. There was a constant fear of epidemics arriving by sea, not only because of the potentially high death toll, but because it could have a seriously detrimental effect on trade. As well as the local impact of disease, health control was important because […] Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Popular Topics | Other (Nineteenth C) | Other (Eighteenth C) | Health at Sea
Subjects include: Miscellaneous
Refining the Steam Coaster: Scotland’s contribution
This article explores the origins and development of a small but significant type of merchant ship, the bulk-carrying steam coaster. They were built in considerable numbers, made an important contribution to industrialization, and their design is largely perpetuated in modern motor coasters, but they have not been well served by shipping historians. An analysis is […] Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | North Sea | Other (Nineteenth C)
Subjects include: Merchant Marines | Shipbuilding & Design
The Bentinck Boom: its history and probable misattribution
The Bentinck boom was a common labour-saving feature in Greenland whalers and British coastal craft in the nineteenth century, notably the collier brigs. Its design, advantages and limitations are all discussed, as is its interesting etymology, and the probability that its invention has been incorrectly attributed to Captain John Bentinck RN as a result of […] Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Other (Nineteenth C)
Subjects include: Shipbuilding & Design | Whaling & Fishing