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 […]
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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 […]
17 March 2023
The Gibson photographs of Prussia Cove Prussia Cove is famous for the stories of the Carter family and especially of John, the self-styled ‘King’ of Prussia. […]
15 March 2023
A chance remark in a funeral eulogy led to the discovery of a first-hand story from 1972 when Falmouth narrowly avoided a potentially disastrous explosion caused […]
13 March 2023
When Falmouth Escaped a Big Bang A chance remark in a recent funeral eulogy in Chepstow – ‘Family tradition has it he helped blow up a […]