19 October 2021
We are often asked what role the Falmouth Packet Service played in slavery. At one level, the Packet Service was simply a government-run postal service collecting […]
19 October 2021
‘Why does the Museum not feature the work of the National 12 designer, Ian Cockshot? we were asked this morning. A good question indeed. The National […]
12 September 2021
Hilary Tunstall-Behrens looks at an incident from HM Sloop Fairy’s later career which is oddly similar to an account in Fairy’s log book for 1795. As […]
12 September 2021
During the summer of 1779 there was a great fear of invasion from France. The whole Channel coast was in alarm, and hasty anti-invasion preparations were […]
12 September 2021
It can hardly comes as a surprise to read that the ‘Gaugers‘ or the Revenue Officers, were very unpopular in coastal communities. Legal or not, the […]
12 September 2021
HM Royal Navy, its Admirals (well most of them), officers and seamen were renowned for their courage and bravery, and the amazing camaraderie of the guns’ […]
8 September 2021
Why, apart from unlawful and nefarious purposes, would the few inhabitants of a small Cornish cove mount a battery of cannon to command its seaward approaches? […]
7 July 2021
So, is the tradition that the Fairy was fired on by the Carters’ battery at Prussia’s Cove founded on fact or is it, like a tale […]
7 July 2021
The Fairy under Capt William Yeo had returned to Plymouth in November 1782 from convoy duties in Newfoundland, and on 31st December 1782, Capt William Thomas […]
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19 October 2021
We are often asked what role the Falmouth Packet Service played in slavery. At one level, the Packet Service was simply a government-run postal service collecting […]
19 October 2021
‘Why does the Museum not feature the work of the National 12 designer, Ian Cockshot? we were asked this morning. A good question indeed. The National […]
12 September 2021
Hilary Tunstall-Behrens looks at an incident from HM Sloop Fairy’s later career which is oddly similar to an account in Fairy’s log book for 1795. As […]
12 September 2021
During the summer of 1779 there was a great fear of invasion from France. The whole Channel coast was in alarm, and hasty anti-invasion preparations were […]
12 September 2021
It can hardly comes as a surprise to read that the ‘Gaugers‘ or the Revenue Officers, were very unpopular in coastal communities. Legal or not, the […]
12 September 2021
HM Royal Navy, its Admirals (well most of them), officers and seamen were renowned for their courage and bravery, and the amazing camaraderie of the guns’ […]
8 September 2021
Why, apart from unlawful and nefarious purposes, would the few inhabitants of a small Cornish cove mount a battery of cannon to command its seaward approaches? […]
7 July 2021
So, is the tradition that the Fairy was fired on by the Carters’ battery at Prussia’s Cove founded on fact or is it, like a tale […]
7 July 2021
The Fairy under Capt William Yeo had returned to Plymouth in November 1782 from convoy duties in Newfoundland, and on 31st December 1782, Capt William Thomas […]