Archive Results For: Period
Note: Captain Nathaniel Boteler
Edye adds detail to the article in MM Volume 1, Issue 1 following his research in the ‘Inquisitions Poet Mortem of Co. Devon’ and also of Cornwall. His work showed that Boteler (pronounced Butler) was a name in use in Devon as early as 1309 but did not appear in the Cornwall records. Read More
Filed under: High Middle Ages | Other (location)
Subjects include: Biography
Note: W Van de Velde
Vaughan expands on the article in MM Volume 1, Issue 1 concerning the work undertaken by the Van der Veldes on Charles II behalf and introduces a new twist. He points out that one Van der Velde was present when the Dutch ‘cut-out’ the Royal Charles and produced a painting of the event. The painting […] Read More
Filed under: Dutch Wars | North Sea | Internal Waterways
Subjects include: Art & Music
Note: Reefs
Brindley corrects the comment made in the Note in the previous issue (MM Volume 1, Issue 2) that he and Alan Moore believed the La Philipe of 1336 was lateen-rigged. He also adds details of further research that suggested that the earliest mention of ‘rifropes’ was probably ‘wipropes’. Read More
Filed under: High Middle Ages | Other (location)
Subjects include: Shipbuilding & Design
Note: The Victualling Instructions
Perrin points out that since the article on the above subject was published in MM Volume 1, Issue 2 the presumed lost ‘1690-1 Instructions’ had been found in the Admiralty Library. Read More
Filed under: Nine Years' War | Other (location)
Subjects include: Administration | Logistics | Navies
Note: The Ship Models at Cuckfield Park, Sussex. Responses
Two responses follow-up Carr Laughton’s Note in MM Volume 1, Issue 2. Further similar models, from roughly the same period, were displayed at the 1905 Naval Exhibition and were owned by a Captain Hoare. The second response proposes that model No. 3 in the earlier article was probably of the Royal Charles, which was famously […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Early Modern) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Ship Models & Figureheads
Note: The Van de Veldes
Blomfield warns of the dangers of taking too literal an interpretation of the colours of flags depicted in ship paintings by the Van der Veldes (see MM Volume 1, Issue 1). He argues that the younger Van der Velde coloured the pen and ink drawings of his father and some were completed long after the […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Early Modern) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Art & Music
Note: Ship in a Window of Lincoln Cathedral
Brindley provides a detailed description of a leaded glass medallion in a window of Lincoln Cathedral. The medallion depicts a possible small sailing vessel of the Fourteenth Century and although roughly repaired gives some idea of the design of such boats. Read More
Filed under: Late Middle Ages | Other (location)
Subjects include: Shipbuilding & Design
Note: Old Sea Terms Ashore
Carr Laughton raises an interesting point concerning phrases that were common at sea and were adopted ashore. He also points out that some expressions were more common on shore than at sea and that, at sea, words retained a meaning which had gone out of use on the land and vice-versa. Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Miscellaneous
Note: Forgotten Meanings
Moore discusses the meaning of a number of commonly used terms that originated at sea. Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Miscellaneous
Note: To Sew
The Note contains a number of responses following an item in MM Volume 1, Issue 1 concerning the phrase ‘to sew’. Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Ship Handling & Seamanship