11 September 2019
May 1789 All goes quiet on this front, for six or seven years, before further references to the Carters’ battery of cannon appear in the Penzance […]
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 […]
30 August 2019
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 […]
30 August 2019
Maunds, Pads, Hogsheads and Hundreds I first wrote this guide for the South West Maritime History Society, back in 1995. However, the it seemed right to […]
28 August 2019
Auld-Lang-Syne – PZ.486 : 1891-1928. Built at Porthleven in 1891, by an unidentified builder (most likely by Kitto or Bowden), the Auld-Lang-Syne was a first class […]
27 August 2019
Swan 132.PZ : >1869-1887; Swan PZ.132: 1887-1895 The Swan was one of the immense fleet of Mount’s Bay luggers in existence before the introduction of the […]
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11 September 2019
May 1789 All goes quiet on this front, for six or seven years, before further references to the Carters’ battery of cannon appear in the Penzance […]
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 […]
30 August 2019
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 […]
30 August 2019
Maunds, Pads, Hogsheads and Hundreds I first wrote this guide for the South West Maritime History Society, back in 1995. However, the it seemed right to […]
28 August 2019
Auld-Lang-Syne – PZ.486 : 1891-1928. Built at Porthleven in 1891, by an unidentified builder (most likely by Kitto or Bowden), the Auld-Lang-Syne was a first class […]
27 August 2019
Swan 132.PZ : >1869-1887; Swan PZ.132: 1887-1895 The Swan was one of the immense fleet of Mount’s Bay luggers in existence before the introduction of the […]