These are discussed alongside more unusual boats, such as the St Ives 'jumbo' and the Mevagissey 'tosher'. The book brings the story up to date, including modern photos of existing boats gathering for the bi-annual Looe lugger regatta.
Author: Mike Smylie
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ISBN: 0752449060
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Author: Alec Stanley Oliver
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ISBN: 085153029X
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OUR DADDY MAT M SHR SAILING TRIPS SMILY AT HAM MEUBE compared
with 930 active fishermen in 2001. During Elizabeth I's reign , Cornish fishing was
nationally important . Cornish boats were sailing to Newfoundland for cod ...
Author: Carol Trewin
Publisher: Alison Hodge Publishers
ISBN: 0906720397
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With Illustrations and Descriptions of the Boats, Nets, and Other Gear in Use, by
Edmund W. H. Holdsworth Edmund ... 111 - fishery almost confined to Cornwall ,
187 - fishing in Cornwall , 130 , 157 , 188 - - at Guernsey , 214 - on the Irish coast
...
Author: Edmund William Hunt Holdsworth
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
ISBN: UOM:39015042746050
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Former Cornish fisherman Paul Greenwood describes life as a crewman aboard ships in 1960s, 70s and 80s.
Author: Paul Greenwood
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9781445650623
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Page: 288
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Whether the fish arrive from the northern latitudes , or remain in the great deeps
off the coast during the remainder of the ... The large boat , of about twelve tons
burthen , carrying the seine , is manned by eight men ; a second boat follows with
...
Author: Henry Besley
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ISBN: OXFORD:590078856
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Here , the idlers of the place assemble to lounge and gossip , to look out for any
outwardbound ships that are to be seen in the Channel , and to criticise the
appearance and glorify the capabilities of the little fleet of Looe fishing - boats ,
riding ...
Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher: London : R. Bentley
ISBN: WISC:89005256748
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Page: 304
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The latter is not more depressed in Cornwall than elsewhere ; the former , as
everyone knows , is one of the staple — perhaps the staple trade of Cornwall .
Scarcely a village or town that does not possess its fishing boats , while more
than one ...
Author: John Lloyd Warden Page
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ISBN: OXFORD:590748480
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Page: 276
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be over, the annual standby for the pilchard harvest no longer the greatest event
of the fishing year but part of a seasonal catch. Fishingboats were built in every
port of any size from St. Ives to Looe, their shape and structure designed to suit ...
Author: Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 9780748114672
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Page: 216
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In 1769 the tithe on the fish taken amounted to £485 1s . 9d . A pier for the
purpose of affording shelter for the fishing boats was constructed at an early
period by the Trewollas who owned the manor of Trelevan ; this was re -
constructed about ...
Author: Joseph Polsue
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ISBN: OXFORD:555055453
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A Cornish proverb says , that when the wheat is lying in the furrows the fish is
sporting on the rocks . The fishing boats never go more than a mile from shore ;
many of them even remain in the bay , whose water pulsates with living matter .
Author: Alphonse Esquiros
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ISBN: BL:A0017971762
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Page: 304
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Fishing. Boats. Again, as in the previous volume, we see a diverse collection of
fishing craft working these shores – from Cornish luggers to Ramsgate smacks. In
between, we find many beach-based craft such as the various Cornish crabbers,
...
Author: Mike Smylie
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9781445614694
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Page: 96
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London is our principal market ; I believe also a few boats pursue a constant
fishery for herrings in Looe Bay . Fleming spawn sinks to the bottom of the sea .
When shed the fish also voids with it a gluey material to enable the globules to
stick to ...
Author: Royal Institution of Cornwall
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ISBN: CORNELL:31924112373414
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BROADFORD HOTEL , The best starting place for the Cuchullins , Loch Scavaig ,
and Loch Coruisk , which are seen to greatest advantage when ap . proached
from the sea . Good Sea , River , and Loch fishing ; also Boats free of charge .
Author: Charles Slegg Ward
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ISBN: HARVARD:HN6NG1
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Page: 160
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Encouraged by the success which attended last year's mackerel fishing , the
fishermen of Cornwall are speculating freely for the coming season . Several
large decked boats are being built at all the fishing ports ; and these Cornish
tishing ...
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ISBN: UIUC:30112089607813
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FISHING BOATS . - A premium of Ten Pounds , by Major Jenkins , of Assam , in
India , for the best Essay on the several descriptions of fishing boats used on the
coast of Cornwall , and in the Scilly Islands ; with particular advertence to their ...
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ISBN: NYPL:33433062735695
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35 dation to a fleet of 150 or 200 boats , Winter . . 44 : 66 39 . 12 of which nine -
tenths are for drift - net fishing , and average from 20 to 22 The mean range of
daily tempera tons burden . Few spectacles are ture for the year at Penzance is 6
.
Author: John Murray (publishers.)
Publisher:
ISBN: OXFORD:590707213
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Page: 80
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IVES 313 the fishing boats are hauled up in safety . It is a sweet and sunny place
, a harbour full of clear green water , the sandy shores of the wide bay curving
round past Phillack and Gwithian , past Godrevy Island , where the lighthouse ...
Author: Arthur Hamilton Norway
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN: NYPL:33433075903520
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Page: 391
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London . of which nine - tenths are for drift - net Spring 49.66 48.76 fishing , and
average from 20 to 22 Summer 60:50 ... One boat's nets as the submerged
forests which occur measure a mile in length . at various points of the Cornish
and ...
Author: John Murray (Firm)
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ISBN: HARVARD:HNNVJS
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Page: 253
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50 in a few hours ; while , from the fisherman's point of Several new orders , with
more to follow , are the results view , the result was probably even more
advantageous . of the successes of the various Cornish motor fishing boats If they
had ...
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