The Maritime History of Cornwall

Helen Doe, Alston Kennerley, Philip Payton

Description

Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region.  Almost an island, nowhere in it is further than 25 miles from the sea.  Cornwall’s often distinctive history has been moulded by this omnipresent maritime environment, while its strategic position at the western approaches—jutting out into the Atlantic—has given this history a global impact.


It is perhaps surprising then, that, despite the central place of the sea in Cornwall’s history, there has not yet been a full maritime history of Cornwall.  The Maritime History of Cornwall sets out to fill this gap, exploring the rich and complex maritime inheritance of this unique peninsula.


In a beautifully illustrated volume, individually commissioned contributions from distinguished historians elaborate on the importance of different periods, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.


The Maritime History of Cornwall is a significant addition to the literature of international maritime history and is indispensable to those with an interest in Cornwall past and present.


Winner of the Holyer an Gof Non-Fiction Award 2015.

List of Editors and Contributors


List of Illustrations


List of Tables and Figures


Foreword


Introduction and Acknowledgements


Part I: 'Window to a Wider World': Early and Medieval Cornwall


1: Introduction   Philip Payton, Alston Kennerley, Helen Doe


2: The Origins of Maritime Cornwall: Pre-Medieval Settlements and Seaways   Caradoc Peters


3: Coastal Communities in Medieval Cornwall   Maryanne Kowaleski


4: Overseas Trade and Shipping in Cornwall in the Later Middle Ages   Wendy R. Childs


Part II: 'The Age of Turbulence': Maritime Disorder in Tudor and Stuart Cornwall


5: Introduction   Philip Payton, Alston Kennerley, Helen Doe


6: Plunder and Prize: Cornish Piracy and Privateering during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries   John C. Appleby


7: 'His Majesties Sea-Service in the Western Parts': Maritime Affairs in Cornwall during the English Civil War   Mark Stoyle


8: Corruption and Inefficiency in the Cornish Customs Service in the Later Seventeenth Century   W.B. Stephens


Part III: 'A Time for War and Trade': Cornwall in the Eighteenth Century


9: Introduction   Philip Payton, Alston Kennerley, Helen Doe


10: Cornish Tin Ships, 1703-1710   John Symons


11: Cornwall and the Royal Navy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries   N.A.M. Rodger


12: Cornish Ports in the Eighteenth Century   Helen Doe


13: Smuggling and Wrecking   John Rule


14: The Cornish Arundells and the Right of Wreck: A Case Study in Landlord-Tenant Relations in the Long Eighteenth Century   Cathryn Pearce


15: Navigation   Adrian James Webb


Pat IV: 'Global Reach and Industrial Prowess': Cornwall in the Nineteenth Century


16: Introduction   Philip Payton, Alston Kennerley, Helen Doe


17: The Cornish Sea Fisheries in the Nineteenth Century   Tony Pawlyn


18: Cornwall: An Inside-out Industrial Region   Bernard Deacon


19: The Coastal Trade in Cornish China Clay    John Armstrong


20: Cornish Maritime Steam   Roy Fenton


21: Yachting in Cornwall before the First World War   Janet Cusack


22: The Smuggler and the Wrecker: Literary Representations of Cornish Maritime Life   Simon Trezise


23: Cornish Ports, Shipping and Investment in the Nineteenth Century   Helen Doe


Part V: 'Inventing "The Cornish Riviera"': From Twentieth to Twenty-first Century Cornwall


24: Introduction   Philip Payton, Alston Kennerley, Helen Doe


25: Cornwall and the Decline of Commercial Sail   Alston Kennerley


26: Maritime Cornwall in the Era of Two World Wars   G.H. and R. Bennett


27: Cornwall's Trading Ports: twentieth-Century Decline into Diversity   Terry Chapman


28: Twentieth-Century Maritime Tourism and Recreation   Philip Payton


29: Cornish Fisheries in the Twentieth Century   Paul Willerton


30: Epilogue   Philip Payton, Alston Kennerley, Helen Doe


Select Bibliography


Index

Sujets

• landscape
• HISTORY
• Histoire
• Cornualles
• Maritime history
• Arundell
• History of the British Isles
• General officer
• Ireland
• Seamanship
• Military
• Globalization
• History of Europe
• Naval
• Stephen Ireland
• Great Britain
• General
• Cornwall
• Mondialisation
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: University of Exeter Press
• Date de parution: 01 mai 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780859899826
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 8 Mo

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THE MARITIME HISTORY OF CORNWALL
T HE M ARITIME H ISTORY OF C ORNWALL
edited by
Philip Payton, Alston Kennerley, Helen Doe

UNIVERSITY of EXETER PRESS
In memory of Stephen Fisher Mentor, friend and project initiator
First published in 2014 by
University of Exeter Press
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© 2014 University of Exeter Press
The right of the editors and contributors to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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ISBN 978 0 85989 850 8
Typeset in 11pt Plantin Light, by Carnegie Book Production, Lancaster Printed in Great Britain by Short Run Press, Exeter
Contents
List of Editors and Contributors
Lists of Illustrations
List of Tables and Figures
Foreword His Royal Highness The Duke of Cornwall
Introduction and Acknowledgements
Part I: ‘Window to a Wider World’: Early and Medieval Cornwall

1 Introduction Helen Doe, Alston Kennerley, Philip Payton
2 The Origins of Maritime Cornwall: Pre-Medieval Settlements and Seaways Caradoc Peters
3 Coastal Communities in Medieval Cornwall Maryanne Kowaleski
4 Overseas Trade and Shipping in Cornwall in the Later Middle Ages Wendy R. Childs
Part II: ‘The Age of Turbulence’: Maritime Disorder in Tudor and Stuart Cornwall
5 Introduction Helen Doe, Alston Kennerley, Philip Payton
6 Plunder and Prize: Cornish Piracy and Privateering during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries John C. Appleby
7 ‘His Majesties Sea-Service in the Western Parts’: Maritime Affairs in Cornwall during the English Civil War Mark Stoyle
8 Corruption and Inefficiency in the Cornish Customs Service in the Later Seventeenth Century W.B. Stephens
Part III: ‘A Time for War and Trade’: Cornwall in the Eighteenth Century
9 Introduction Helen Doe, Alston Kennerley, Philip Payton
10 Cornish Tin Ships, 1703–1710 John Symons
11 Cornwall and the Royal Navy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries N.A.M. Rodger
12 Cornish Ports in the Eighteenth Century Helen Doe
13 Smuggling and Wrecking John Rule
14 The Cornish Arundells and the Right of Wreck: A Case Study in Landlord–Tenant Relations in the Long Eighteenth Century Cathryn Pearce
15 Navigation Adrian James Webb
Part IV: ‘Global Reach and Industrial Prowess’: Cornwall in the Nineteenth Century
16 Introduction Helen Doe, Alston Kennerley, Philip Payton
17 The Cornish Sea Fisheries in the Nineteenth Century Tony Pawlyn
18 Cornwall: An Inside-out Industrial Region Bernard Deacon
19 The Coastal Trade in Cornish China Clay John Armstrong
20 Cornish Maritime Steam Roy Fenton
21 Yachting in Cornwall before the First World War Janet Cusack
22 The Smuggler and the Wrecker: Literary Representations of Cornish Maritime Life Simon Trezise
23 Cornish Ports, Shipping and Investment in the Nineteenth Century Helen Doe
Part V: ‘Inventing “The Cornish Riviera”’: From Twentieth to Twenty-first Century Cornwall
24 Introduction Helen Doe, Alston Kennerley, Philip Payton
25 Cornwall and the Decline of Commercial Sail Alston Kennerley
26 Maritime Cornwall in the Era of Two World Wars G.H. and R. Bennett
27 Cornwall’s Trading Ports: Twentieth-Century Decline into Diversity Terry Chapman
28 Twentieth-Century Maritime Tourism and Recreation Philip Payton
29 Cornish Fisheries in the Twentieth Century Paul Willerton
Epilogue
Select Bibliography
Editors and Contributors
Helen Doe gained her PhD in Maritime History from the University of Exeter after an international career in marketing. She is a Fellow at the University of Exeter and her research interests are in the field of maritime business history and Cornish maritime history. She has published widely, with articles in the Economic History Review , International Journal of Maritime History, the Journal of Transport History and the Mariner’s Mirror . Her recent books are Enterprising Women in Shipping in the Nineteenth Century and From Coastal Sail to Global Shipping , a history of a mutual marine insurance club. She is co-editor with Professor Richard Harding of Naval Leadership and Management, 1650–1950 , published in 2011.
Alston Kennerley served in the Merchant Navy as a navigating officer, having spent his first year in the four-masted barque Passat . After qualifying as a master mariner he pursued an academic career at Plymouth teaching navigation to generations of students taking cadet, mate and master courses, and maritime history to nautical undergraduates, while researching nautical education and seafarers’ welfare for his research degrees. He retired from the University of Plymouth in 2000, the year he published The Making of the University of Plymouth , a history of tertiary education in south Devon since 1815. He has published extensively in academic journals such as History of Education and International Journal of Maritime History , mostly on topics of maritime social history.
Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies at the University of Exeter, and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. He served in the Royal Navy for thirty years, a dozen as a regular and the remainder as a reservist, retiring in the rank of Commander. He was inter alia Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and International Affairs at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 1989–91. Recent books include A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (2005, paperback 2007), Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia’s Little Cornwall (2007), John Betjeman and Cornwall: ‘The Celebrated Cornish Nationalist’ (2010), and Regional Australia and the Great War: ‘The Boys from Old Kio’ (2012).
Contributors
John Armstrong recently retired as Professor of Business History at Thames Valley University (now the University of West London). He is interested in the history of all modes of transport and particularly the British coastal trade, on which he has published extensively. He was joint editor with Andreas Kunz of Coastal Shipping and the European Economy, 1730–1980 , published in Mainz in 2002. For more than a dozen years he edited the Journal of Transport History and until last year he organised the British Commission for Maritime History’s seminars held at King’s College London. He is a Fellow of the British Commission for Maritime History. His two most recent books are The Vital Spark: The British Coastal Trade, 1700–1930 , published in Newfoundland in 2009, and The Impact of Technological Change : The Early Steamship in Britain , in 2011 with David M. Williams.
John Appleby is a senior lecturer in History at Liverpool Hope University. He works on early modern English maritime and colonial history. He was a contributor to Volume I of the Oxford History of the British Empire and is the author of Under the Bloody Flag: Pirates of the Tudor Age (Stroud, 2009).
Dr G.H. Bennett is a reader in history at the University of Plymouth, where he has worked since 1992. Dr R. Bennett is a former merchant seaman and reader Emeritus at the University of Derby. Their work together includes Survivors: British Merchant Seamen in the Second World War , Continuum, London and Rio Grande, 2007, and Hitler’s Admirals , United States Naval Institute Press, Annapolis (MD), 2004.
Terry Chapman retired to Cornwall after more than thirty years as an aircraft engineer in the Royal Navy. He then read Contemporary History with English in the University of Plymouth before beginning his postgraduate work on the National Dock Labour Scheme in Cornwall with the University of Exeter’s Institute of Cornish Studies at Tremough. Awarded his PhD in 2006, he maintains an interest in researching, speaking and writing around his thesis.
Bernard Deacon recently retired as Lecturer in Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter’s Institute of Cornish Studies, based at the Tremough campus. He was Programme Director for the Institute’s innovative, flexibly delivered Master’s degree in Cornish Studies. Among other things, he has written on the history of the family in Cornwall, the Cornish identity and Cornish nationalism and the fishing community of Newlyn. His book Cornwall: The Concise History was published by University of Wales Press in 2007. At present he is working on a book on the origin and spread of Cornish surnames.
Wendy Childs is Emeritus Professor in the School of History, University of Leeds. She has worked on England’s overseas trade in the later Middle Ages for over forty years and has published on particular commodities, overseas markets and English ports. These publications include an edition of The Customs Accounts of Hull 1453–1490 (1986) and contributions to The New Maritime History of Devon , Vol. I, ed. M. Duffy et al (1992) and England’s Sea Fisheries , ed. David J. Starkey et al . (2000).
Janet Cusack. The late Janet Cusack gained her doctorate from the University of Exeter and was a specialist on the history of yachting, one of the very few scholars working on this topic. She submitted her contribution on the history of yachting in Cornwall following a conference held at Exeter in 2001.
Roy Fenton is a researcher, author and publisher; co-editor of the journal Ships in Focus Record ; a director and trustee of the World Ship Society; and frequent contributor to maritime history conferences. His specialism is the steam cargo ship, on which he has written or co-authored some twenty-five books and many articles and papers. In 2005 he was awarded a PhD for a thesis on the transition from sail to steam in the coastal bulk trades.
Maryanne Kowaleski is Joseph Fitzpatrick SJ Distinguished Professor of History at Fordham University. She is author of Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter (1995) and editor of Local Port Customs Accounts of the Port of Exeter 1266–