Maritime History Contents Page

Maritime History Contents Page

Regional Indices of Sailing Ships	These indices list merchant sailing ships . From the indices you can click on the name of a ship to get details of her history. This is an ongoing project and more ships will be added as I gather information.
	Index of Furness & Duddon Sailing Ships	Histories of 293 merchant sailing ships built or owned in Barrow, Ulverston and Millom, 26 illustrated.
	Index of Whitehaven Sailing Ships	Histories of 264 merchant sailing ships built or owned at Whitehaven, 14 illustrated.
	Index of Workington & Harrington Sailing Ships	Histories of 160 merchant sailing ships built or owned at the Cumberland ports of Harrington and Workington, nine illustrated.
	Index of Lancaster Sailing Ships	Histories of 52 merchant sailing ships built or owned at Lancaster or Glasson Dock, two illustrated.
	Index of Maryport Sailing Ships	Histories of 133 merchant sailing ships built or owned at Maryport, four illustrated.
	Index of Isle of Man Sailing Ships	Histories of 45 Manx-built merchant sailing ships, three illustrated.
	Index of Solway Sailing Ships	Histories of 9 merchant sailing ships built or owned in the Scottish ports of Annan, Dalbeattie, Kippford and Palnackie, on the Solway Firth , three illustrated.

Maritime Miscellany	Miscellaneous information on maritime history, categorised by region. These sections include information on shipbuilders and shipyards, lifeboats, paintings and other maritime activities.
	Furness Maritime Miscellany Covers the Furness ports of Barrow, Ulverston and Greenodd, and the port of Millom on the Duddon estuary.	Notebooks of William Gawith listing 777 ships departing from Barrow 1856-72 List of Sea Captains resident in Barrow and Ulverston List of Ulverston & Lancaster Vessels, 1855 Gallery of photographs and paintings of Furness schooners Pierhead Painters The Barrow lifeboat, Thomas Fielden Obituary of "Pioneer Shipbuilder" Richard Ashburner William White, the last Ulverston shipbuilder Hindpool Shipyards Duddon Shipbuilding Company Sailing Ships on Old Postcards, from Barrow-in-Furness, 1903. The yacht Rose
	Cumberland Maritime Miscellany Covers the Cumbrian ports of Maryport, Whitehaven, Workington and Harrington.	Whitehaven ship owners and masters in 1834 Workington & Harrington shipowners in 1848 Shepherd & Leech, Whitehaven shipbuilders Lumley Kennedy & Co., Whitehaven shipbuilders The loss of the Ritson , a Maryport brig, in 1857 Cumberland wrecks, 1886 The Whitehaven Shipbuilding Company J.D.Newton's Dale Line Shipwrecks of Cumberland vessels in Dublin Bay, March 1844.
	Lancashire Maritime Miscellany Covers the Lancashire ports of Lancaster, Preston, Fleetwood (Liverpool and Mersey ports will be given a future separate section).	Loss of the Preston schooner Delight, 1829. Lifeboat Disasters and the Mexico wreck, 1886 The Lune Shipbuilding Company

Maritime History Articles	Historical newspaper articles and modern research papers on NW maritime history.
	Maritime Gallantry Awards The schooner Ulverston The wreck of the White Star liner Tayleur Story of a Hoodoo Ship Ulverston shipbuilder E.J.Schollick	The Southport & St.Annes Lifeboat Disaster The wreck of the Ocean Monarch The Opening of Barrow Docks Barrow Shipbuilding Co., 1881

Maritime History Links & Bibliography	General Maritime History Links	Link & archive sites, including web directories and sites relating to Europe, Australia and N.America.
	NW Maritime History Links	Sites related to the Irish Sea, N.Wales and Anglesey and the NW of England.
	Bibliography	Books covering the history of British schooners, and maritime history of the NW of England and the Irish Sea. Includes Book Search link.

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