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 […]
The Groans and Grumblings of Jeremy Gribble[*], or The Miseries of a life at Sea. A splenetic composition ~~~~ Rundis, indigestaque moles[*] ~~~~~ Misery 1st. – […]
Any reader of Patrick O’Brien’s Jack Aubrey novels will understand the elegant coincidence that Charles Darwin (a naturalist born in 1809) and James Williamson (a surgeon […]
There are many customs now prevalent among particular classes of men, the origin of which is so obscure from antiquity or other causes, that it would […]
James Williamson gives this account of ‘smuggling’ from his time on HM Packet Duke of York. From the earliest establishment of the [Packets], [1] the spirit […]
Haec partim ex libris Excerpsi, partier egomet pro soupei De Omnibus rebus, Mullisque alid ~~~ A person being asked what he thought of the assassination of […]