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From Annie Robinson Shipbuilding Yards and Ships 1765 – 1911 Introduction
The names which applied to the type of vessels were sloop, smack, snow, schooner, brig (brigantine) and ship, and the following definitions may be found useful.
Sloop, a small one masted fore and aft rigged vessel, with a jib stay and standing bowsprit.
Smack, a small single masted sailing vessel, fore and aft rigged like a sloop.
Schooner, a small fore and aft rigged vessel, with two masts, but in later usage often with three or four masts and carrying one or two top sails.
Snow, a small vessel resembling a brig, carrying a main and fore mast, and a supplementary trysail mast close behind the main mast.
Brig (brigantine), a vessel with two masts square rigged like a ship’s fore and main masts, but carrying also on her main mast a lower fore and aft sail with a gaff and boom.
Ship, a large seagoing vessel, having a bow-sprit and three masts, each of which consists of a lower top and topgallant mast.
ARm : Memories of Maryports Maritime History 1779 – 1938 Miss Annie Robinson, M.B.E., J.P. Maritime History Annie Robinson 1779 – 1938 – Maryport History (click here for home page) NOTE THAT THE BOOKLET HAS PICTURES OF SHIPS THAT ARE NOT DESCRIBED IN THIS BOOKLET – SEE REFERENCES ON WEB PAGE
HS From Arm: Each headstone has a great story to tell and the following inscriptions are a few from 110 to be found in the Maryport cemetery and churchyards. Maritime History Annie Robinson 1779 – 1938 – Maryport History (click here for home page)
ARg MARYPORT’S GREAT SHIPBUILDING YARDS & SHIPS Compiled by Miss Annie Robinson, M.B.E., J.P.
DS Desmond Sythes – Sailing Ships Built in West Cumberland from 1700s by Desmond G Sythes 1969
1839 JP 1839 Justice of the Peace –
1856 PG 1856-maryport-the-port-gazette/
1881 PG = 1881-maryport-the-port-gazette/
1841 LE 1841 Cumberland Times Ninety Years Ago [“Locomotive” is the alias of the writer] These are retyped from a cutting from Cumberland Times that has no date, but the title of the article is “Ninety Years Ago” and the four specific references to 1841 suggests that it was written in 1931. [PN]
1864 BS Methodist Churches of Brow Street and Well Lane –
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Maryport Shipping by Herbert and Mary Jackson HMJ
Maritime History Annie Robinson 1779 – 1938 – ARm
1740 – 1926 Maryport Rise and Progress of the Port
Shipbuilding Yards and Ships 1765 – 1911 Introduction – Annie Robinson blue cover
Shipbuilding 1765-1862 Woods Yard Annie Robinson
Shipbuilding 1793-1840 Peats Yard = JP Annie Robinson
Shipbuilding 1820-1860 Middleton Yard Annie Robinson & Sailing Ships Built in West Cumberland from 1700s by Desmond G Sythes 1969
Shipbuilding 1840-1910 Ritson Yard
1934 Maryport Life-Boat rescue of ss Plawsworth crew
Shipbuilding 1902-1911 William Walker )
1881 Maryport The Port Gazette –
Pictures Ship Building and Launching Photos from
Harbour Maritime Miscellany Photos from
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1740 – 1926 Maryport Rise and Progress of the Port – Sea Breezes June 1927
1872 Cumbrian Coincedences from Breezes 1927
1877 Hazel Holme sailing barque
1887 Lost on Uncharted Reef Hard Times Foster Heroism Article and reference to a book about this shipwreck
1899 11 months in Blackbraes sailing from Tyne to Frisco
1903 Hougomont Stranded at Allonby
1951 Maryport Steamships The Flying Buzzard
1927 July Notes from Everywhere and Everybody (no Maryport items)
1927 Signal Station Movement of Ships (no Maryport items)
At Anchor in Amoy China – Xiamen (no Maryport items)
Boudoir Breezes June July 1927 (no Maryport items)
Loss of the Kenneth C a Modern Shipwreck (no Maryport items)
The Plight of The Moy – Big Price for Small Tow (no Maryport items)
Sailing Ships and Windjammers Videos (no Maryport items)
Harbour Coal Hurry Loading no text
Pictures of Sailing Ships built in Maryport Names A – G
Pictures of Sailing Ships built in Maryport Names H – L
Pictures of Sailing Ships built in Maryport Names M – R
Pictures of Sailing Ships Built in Maryport S -Z
https://maryporthistory.uk/sea-breezes-june-july-1927/1887-lost-on-uncharted-reef-hard-times-foster-heroism/ thrashing across the Atlantic in Captain John Suiter’s Maryport fleet of wooden ships, among them the Callixene, Clyde, Gladstone and Mersey, which traded to Quebec in the season and to American lumber ports at other times,
Maryport Harbour Senhouse Dock Ship Nether Holme Moored On Quay Pictures of Steam Ships – Maryport History (click here for home page)
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