Smuggling and wrecking around Cornwall
11 September 2019
Reference to Carters’ battery first appears in official correspondence in the early 1780s but surprisingly there is not a single mention of it at this time […]
10 September 2019
The Carter Brothers, possibly the most notorious of Cornish smugglers, were raised in the vicinity of Prussia’s Cove, in the second half of the eighteenth century. […]
31 August 2019
The Carter brothers were possible the best-known and notorious Cornish smugglers of the second half of the C18. There were seven of them. Thomas Carter Born […]
31 August 2019
The Guns of Prussia’s Cove or the Carters’ Battery The late C18 was a turbulent time. Bays and anchorages on the coast of England, remote from central […]
18 August 2018
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 […]
17 August 2018
It would be impossible to talk about the maritime history of Cornwall without some mention of smuggling and wrecking. Smuggling is a by-product of government policy […]