West country maritime and social history
Subtitle: some essays
By: edited by Stephen Fisher.
Contributors: Fisher, Harold Edward Stephen.
Series: Exeter papers in economic history ;; no. 13
Publisher: University of Exeter
Published: 1980
Place of publication: [Exeter]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Shipping -- England -- West Country -- History -- 19th century.; West Country (England) -- Economic conditions.; West Country (England) -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Errata slip inserted.
Table of contents: title: The south west's other packet station / John Lucking; title: The trade and shipping of Morwellham in the nineteenth century / Amber Patrick; title: Navigation school and training ship / Alston Kennerley; title: Ships' engineers / H. Campbell McMurray; title: The Magic / David H. Kennett; title: The Batten Castle / Richard Pearse; title: The rise of Ilfracombe as a seaside resort in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Bruce May.