Sailing Ships and Maritime History

Merchant Sailing Ships of the NW of England

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Whitehaven, Maryport, Barrow-in-Furness, Duddon (Millom), Lancaster, Harrington, Workington, Isle of Man

INTRODUCTION

The Through Mighty Seas website covers the maritime history of the merchant sailing ships of the North West of England and the Isle of Man, through the period from the late 1700's until the First World War. There are histories of more than 990 ships, indexed by region, and over 100 historic photographs.

The history covers the area from Lancaster to the S of Morecambe Bay, and the Cumbrian coast to the Solway Firth, and includes the Isle of Man. The main content is individual ship histories, but also included is information on shipbuilders, shipyards, lifeboats, sea captains and mariners, shipping lines and other maritime history information. The site deals only with merchant sailing ships, but there are links (below) to other sites covering steamships and the Royal Navy.

FULL CONTENTS RECENT UPDATES ARTICLES

QUICK LINKS THIS SITE	SHIP INDICES : Isle of Man, Barrow & Millom (Furness & Duddon), Whitehaven, Workington & Harrington, Maryport, Lancaster & Glasson Dock REGIONAL MISCELLANY : Furness, Cumberland, Lancashire MASTER MARINERS : Barrow & Ulverston, Whitehaven PICTURE GALLERIES : Furness 1, Furness 2, Furness 3, Furness 4 , Cumberland , Star of India , Dunboyne WILLIAM GAWITH'S NOTEBOOKS: Details of 777 vessels sailing from Barrow in the 1850-70 period. OTHER : Bibliography, Barrow Lifeboat, Pierhead Painters
QUICK LINKS THIS SITE	REPRESENTATIVE SHIPS - Some examples from the 990 ship histories on this site. LETTERS OF MARQUE : Thetis, Paragon TEA CLIPPERS : Belted Will, Everest, Scawfell, Corea EMIGRANT SHIPS : Carricks, Western Monarch, Hibernia INDIAMEN : Bowfell, Raj Mahal, Clymene, Burdwan Q-SHIP : Q-23 COASTING SCHOONERS : James Postlethwaite, Elizabeth Barrow, Mary Ashburner DEEPWATER SCHOONERS : Mary Barrow, William Ashburner MORECAMBE BAY YACHT : Rose IRON FULL-RIGGED SHIPS & BARQUES: Grassendale, Mallsgate, Eusemere, Andelana MODERN SURVIVORS : Result, Dunboyne, Solway Lass, Euterpe SHIPWRECK TRAGEDIES: Hannah, Moresby, Robert, Tampico LIFEBOAT RESCUES & HEROISM : Manley, Elephant, Dove, Mary Stoddart, JW Wearing, Bessie Arnold CREW LISTS: Eliza Bond
NW MARITIME MUSEUMS	The Beacon, Whitehaven, The Dock, Barrow, Lytham Lifeboat Museum, Merseyside Maritime Museum
USEFUL LINKS OFFSITE	ROYAL NAVY (SAILING SHIPS) : Ships of the Old Navy SHIPWRECKS : Rock, Tempest, Fire and Foe (Shipwrecks of the British Isles), Irish Shipwrecks Online, Southport Shipwrecks, Encyclopedia of Australian Shipwrecks, Wrecks of the Pentland Firth , Pembrokeshire Wrecks , New Zealand Ships Database SAILING SHIP RESOURCES : Gilbert Provost's Lloyds Register website, Maritime History Virtual Archives, Fredrik Sandström's Sailing Ships website, Palmer List of Merchant Vessels NATIONAL DATABASES : Canadian Ship Heritage Database, Welsh Mariners, US Shipping Registers (Mystic Seaport Library) BARROW SUBMARINES: Barrow Submariners Association MARINE ART : Fine Art Emporium - The Site for Marine Art, The Marine Art Information Center WELSH PORTS : Swansea Mariners, Gwynedd Maritime Database, Amlwch Databases, Amlwch.Net WHALING : The Whaler's Heritage Project NW PORTS : Duddon/Millom, Barrow, Whitehaven, Fleetwood , Merseyside Shipping MERCHANT NAVY (STEAMSHIPS) : Red Duster - the British Merchant Navy SAILING SHIP PHOTOGRAPHS: State Library of Victoria, PictureAustralia, San Francisco Public Library, National Maritime Museum - Centre for Research STEAMSHIP & NAVAL PHOTOGRAPHS : Vickers Photographic Archive at Barrow's Dock Museum RESEARCH GUIDES : Mariners, Memorial University of Newfoundland - Maritime History Archive, Merseyside Maritime Museum Archives , British Mercantile Records for the 19th & 20th Centuries (Len Barnett) SHANTIES : Songs of the Sea TALL SHIPS : Tall Ships Fan (Volker Gries) MISCELLANEOUS : Ships in Port 1881 Census, Bob Sanders' Maritime History website

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