29 June 2024
Within the Museum archives is a copy of a typescript written by Lt Cdr Bevil Warington Smyth. He became head of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) […]
23 April 2024
Resistance, Cape Machichaco SW 6 or 7 leags, 2 March 1809 The Hnble W.W. Pole Sir, I enclose for the information of the Lords Commissioners of […]
23 April 2024
Our research into the authorship of the Ceuta Papers led us to a set of letters written by Captain Charles Adam of the frigate HMS Resistance […]
23 April 2024
Charles Adam’s letters from Falmouth are all stored in the National Archives ADM 1/1452 ‘Letters from Captain’s 1808/1809’. They start with a report of his arrival. […]
22 April 2024
Westward FY.229 Maid Marion PZ.61. Built at Mevagissey by Percy Mitchell, and completed in October 1925, the details of her and her ownership as a Sea […]
22 April 2024
Penrose ~ PZ.105 : 1940-1959 Westward Ho ~ PZ.105 : 1959-1967 (Bonnie Girls ~ FY.179 : ?1945?) The Penrose was built at Looe in 1911, but […]
5 April 2024
Admiral Nelson was known for his ability to inspire those around him. It is therefore good to trip over solid evidence of him being supportive to […]
16 June 2023
Eliza Jane ~ 190.PZ : 1877-1887Eliza Jane ~ PZ.190 : 1887-1903Eliza Jane ~ SS.190 : 1903-1909Eliza Jane ~ N.23 : 1909-1913 [?] Silas Bath, 1877-92. The […]
18 May 2023
A Sea Waif We all dream of finding a bottle containing a message sent by some forlorn sailor stuck on a desert island, in the form […]
28 March 2023
The voyage of HMS Beagle, captained by Robert Fitzroy and containing the young Charles Darwin is justly famous. At the end of a five year circumnavigation, […]
28 March 2023
Volunteer Linda Batchelor came across the following entry from Barclay Fox’s Journal for October 1836 which brings together three well-known names. 10th Month 3. Captain Fitzroy […]
17 March 2023
Finding real evidence of smuggling is difficult. The trial of Charles Carter in 1793 contained tantalising reports of spaces or caves which had been found under […]