Not long after initiating the project to research and excavate the wreck site of the Earl of Abergavenny which foundered in Weymouth Bay, Dorset, in 1805, NAS Fellow, Ed Cumming from MIBEC Maritime started to take an interest in the wreck site of another East India ship further to the East. The tragic wrecking of the Halsewell in 1786 at Peveril Point, Dorset. Find out more here.... Read more
This MIBEC publication focuses on the coastal areas and seas surrounding Dorset, from Lyme Bay/West Bay in the west through the Roads of Portland & Weymouth, Weymouth Bay and then Studland Bay/Purbeck/Poole in the east. The key historical ports along the Dorset coast are; Lyme, Bridport, Portland, Weymouth, Swanage, Christchurch and Poole. Read more here... Read more
One and a half miles off the coast at Weymouth in Dorset, 20 metres below the surface, lies the wreck of the Earl of Abergavenny. Built by Thomas Pitcher at his yard in Northfleet, Kent in 1796 she was one of the largest classes of merchant ships chartered to the United East India Company. Abergavenny’s commander was John Wordsworth, brother of poet William Wordsworth. Read more
The 'Nancy', East India Company packet, wrecked at the end of February 1784 in the Isles of Scilly. This historical report, which includes the story of the infamous London actress Mrs. Ann Cargill & the East India Company Captain, John Haldane, is a fascinating piece of research and a major contribution to the maritime history of the Isles of Scilly. Read more
This maritime compendium covers the archipelago of the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall. It also covers the surrounding sea areas which use Scilly as a focus, i.e. incidents, usually referred to as ‘off Scilly’. The Seven Stones are certainly included and some incidents may cover an area nearer to the Wolf Rock and Land’s End. Discover more here..... Read more
NAS member and fellow, Ed Cumming (MIBEC Publications) has created an invaluable "A Compendium of Potentially Missing Vessels recorded in the British Press in the 19th Century". You can freely search the entire index of 822 pages. Discover more here... Read more
The object of this research by NAS Fellow, Ed Cumming, has been to identify and, if possible, to give extra detail to total loss incidents incurred by the major ships of the English (later British) East India Company, 1600 to 1834. Discover more here... Read more
The mutiny on the Bounty, perhaps the most celebrated mutiny of all time, took place on board a relatively small and insignificant ship in the remoteness of the South Pacific. William Bligh, the infamous or illustrious captain of HMS Bounty - depending on one’s point of view - survived to tell the tale. Read Bryn Hammond's unpublished research paper here... Read more