Ships of the Port of London
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Main Summary
This report is the first full study of the remains of the twelfth- to seventeenth-century ships and boats from the port of London. Using evidence from the vessels, from waterfronts, and from contemporary manuscripts Peter Marsden has reconstructed the design, construction, and use of these ancient vessels. The book focuses on the substantial remains of three local vessels. The earliest, the Custom House boat, was built in 1160-90 and was found broken up and reused in a waterfront revetment dating from a century later. The other two were wrecks discovered in the River Thames: Blackfriars ship 3, a fifteenth-century sailing barge, and Blackfriars ship 2, a barge which sank about 1670 with a cargo of bricks for rebuilding in London after the Great Fire of 1666.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Summary
Résumé
Zusammenfassung
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Twelfth to thirteenth-century shipping in the port of London
2 The twelfth-century Custom House boats, City of London, 1973
3 Blackfiars ship 3, c 1400, City of London, 1970
4 Blackfiars ship 4, probably fifteenth century, City of London, 1970
5 Ship and boat fragments of the twelfth to early fifteenth centuries
6 Sixteenth-century reverse clinker boat, Morgans Lane, Southwark
7 Blackfriars ship 2, seventeenth century, City of London, 1969
8 Ship and boat fragments of the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries
Appendices
Glossary of nautical terms
Bibliography
Index
© Historic England 2015
