22 June 2018
Monday 15 Sept.r 1828 – crossed the Equator at 7 oClock this morning, when our ship was hailed by old Neptune, the monarch of the deep – […]
21 June 2018
BRITISH yachting, properly so called, dates from the Restoration, and is of Dutch parentage. There is a tendency to try to find the origin of the […]
21 June 2018
Chapter 1 covers the developments of yachting from an early period with many interesting medieval references to rigs and the development of for-and-aft rigs. The sections […]
21 June 2018
British Yachts and Yachtsmen contains an appendix on yacht clubs, presented here as a separate section. The order is not alphabetical and may, or may not, […]
21 June 2018
British Yachts and Yachtsmen was published in 1907. Written by an anonymous author for The Yachtsman magazine, it is sub-titled: ‘A complete history of British yachting from the middle of […]
21 June 2018
As the most westerly large harbour in Britain, Falmouth played an important role in the era of sail. For around 150 years from 1689, Packet Ships […]
21 June 2018
Trafalgar: the greatest sea battle of the age of sail and the event that sealed Britain’s domination of the seas for a century. The events of […]
21 June 2018
Watercolour with ink and body colour 46.5cm x 59.5cm Signed: Nicholas Cammillieri Built: Fowey 1812 Owners: Angove & Co. A temporary Packet first hired in 1812 […]
21 June 2018
Saturday 23rd Aug.t – when I got up this morning, I beheld the island of Teneriffe. This island seems to be more rocky and precipitous than Madeira – […]
21 June 2018
Journal of a Voyage from Falmouth to Brazil and back Sailed 11th August 1828 – Returned 9th Dec.r 1828 On Monday the 11th August 1828 at exactly five weeks after having […]
21 June 2018
Journal of a Voyage from Falmouth to Brazil & back Sailed 11th August 1828 – Returned 9th December 1828 Absent 17 weeks & 2 days James’ first voyage took […]
21 June 2018
The National Maritime Museum Cornwall (NMMC) is fortunate in owning six Packet Ship portraits by the noted pierhead painter Nicholas Cammillieri (1773? – 1860). These were […]