22 September 2019
Little is known about the 25 ton sloop Liberty prior to the first official Registration of British Shipping in August/September 1786. Built at Topsham in Devon […]
11 September 2019
While Charles was languishing in prison, during the first week in February, 1794, a wreck occurred in Prussia’s Cove, that demanded the attention of the Penzance […]
11 September 2019
On February 21st 1793, the Attorney General opened a trial in the Court of Exchequer against Charles Carter. In the preceding months Charles, together with John […]
11 September 2019
Once again all then went quiet, and it was seven or eight months later before another incident brought Carter’s battery to the fore. The Lord Hood, […]
11 September 2019
The sloop Liberty, which had escaped the previous encounter had been legitimately registered at Penzance as No.2 in 1786. Built at Topsham in 1780, she was […]
11 September 2019
May 1789 All goes quiet on this front, for six or seven years, before further references to the Carters’ battery of cannon appear in the Penzance […]
11 September 2019
Reference to Carters’ battery first appears in official correspondence in the early 1780s but surprisingly there is not a single mention of it at this time […]
10 September 2019
The Carter Brothers, possibly the most notorious of Cornish smugglers, were raised in the vicinity of Prussia’s Cove, in the second half of the eighteenth century. […]
31 August 2019
The Carter brothers were possible the best-known and notorious Cornish smugglers of the second half of the C18. There were seven of them. Thomas Carter Born […]
31 August 2019
The Guns of Prussia’s Cove or the Carters’ Battery The late C18 was a turbulent time. Bays and anchorages on the coast of England, remote from central […]
30 August 2019
We are fortunate that a large collection of historic photographs exist showing some of the luggers and motor fishing vessels registered in Penzance and fishing both […]
30 August 2019
Maunds, Pads, Hogsheads and Hundreds I first wrote this guide for the South West Maritime History Society, back in 1995. However, the it seemed right to […]