31 July 2019
A visit to the north-west of County Clare allows one to look further into Walter Hunkin’s narrative. As one might expect of a former ship’s captain, […]
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21 July 2019
Penzance is the most westerly registration port for fishing boats, covering an area from roughly the Lizard around to Cape Cornwall. Luggers and latterly motor fishing […]
21 July 2019
The surviving Cornish Shipping Registers and Sea Fishing Boat Registers held by Cornwall Record Office, together with associated Crew Agreements, are held in class MSR – […]
21 July 2019
The following information has been copied from the SEA FISHERIES MANUAL 1903, H.M.S.O., London, 1903 – the ‘Manual for the guidance of Officers employed in carrying […]
19 July 2019
Breadwinner~PZ.121 : 1925-26 / Biddy~PZ.121 : 1926-1989 [+?] Built in 1925, for Edward James Williams, of Cliff House, Porthleven, and Thomas Kitchen Williams, of Peverell Rd., Porthleven, […]
4 July 2019
Agatha – 218.PZ : 1878-1903; Agatha – PZ.218 : 1903-1945; With a hull length of 46.5 feet, the Agatha was a mackerel driver, one of the larger […]
20 June 2019
The patriotic name Emblem was one of the more popular names for Mount’s Bay fishing boats, there being at least six Bay fishing boats with this […]
20 April 2019
The evacuation from Dunkirk of June 1940 is well-known but the evacuation from the rest of France in Operation Ariel is rarely mentioned in accounts of […]
20 April 2019
Operation Ariel (Aerial) and the Evacuation from France – June 1940 Operation Ariel was the code name for the evacuation of troops and civilians from […]