A chance encounter led Volunteer Linda Batchelor on the trail of Daniel Pender, a Falmouth boy descended from a line of Packet ship sailors, who helped […]
Cornwall is almost synonymous with smuggling and few late C18 smuggling families are more famous than the Carters of Prussia’s (now Prussia) Cove. They, and their […]
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 […]
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 […]
There were two leading Ship Agents operating in the town during Falmouth’s heyday in the C19: Fox’s and Broad’s. These companies provided services to ship owners […]
We have added a new section which contains a transcription of the diaries of Walter Benson Hunkin, originally of Mevagissey in Cornwall. He served aboard the last […]
Watercolour with ink and body colour 46.5cm x 58cm Unsigned Built: London 1795 185 tons Originally built for Captain Couse this Packet had a notable career […]
Watercolour and ink with body colour 45.5cm x 58cm Built: Falmouth c1807 19063/94 Tons Built for Captain Stephen Bell she was 80ft 8ins in length with […]
Watercolour with ink and body colour 45.5cm x 60cm Signed: N.S. Cammillieri Built: London c1816 20142/94 tons The Lady MaryPelham was 84ft 2ins long, 24ft broad with two […]
Watercolour with ink and body colour 44.5cm x 58cm Signed: N. Cammillieri Built: Falmouth, 1810 193 34/94 tons Captain Kirkness received his commission on 4th May […]
From the evidence of his surviving work it appears that Nicholas Cammillieri had a full and productive life, yet the archives have so far only afforded […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]