Wales and the Sea - 10,000 Years of Welsh Maritime History — 10,000 Years of Welsh Maritime History

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Cyfeirlyfr darluniadol cynhwysfawr yn adrodd hanes morwrol Cymru o'r cyfnod cynnar hyd yr amser presennol.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

An ambitious and extremely comprehensive reference book with hundreds of colour photos, presenting the whole of Wales' maritime history.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

Contents Foreword by The Right Honourable The Lord Elis-Thomas, PC, AM, Minister for Culture, Tourism and Sport in the Welsh Government Introduction: People and the sea: a common inheritance - Sian Rees and Mark Redknap Section 1: Seas to inspire and fear Chapter 1: The sea in art, music and literature - Sian Rees 1.1 Seafaring in medieval legend - Mark Redknap 1.2 Medieval poets at sea - Mark Redknap 1.3 Ships fashioned and scratched - Mark Redknap 1.4 Visual imagery - Peter Wakelin 1.5 Sailor souvenirs - Mark Redknap 1.6 Pioneers of photography and film - Mark Redknap 1.7 Songs of the sea - David Jenkins 1.8 The art of Francis Place - Mark Redknap Chapter 2: For those in peril: navigation and safety - David Jenkins 2.1 Medals for bravery - Edward Besly 2.2 A cut above the rest: the pilot cutter - Daryl Leeworthy and Deanna Groom 2.3 ‘And now for the shipping forecast…’ - Deanna Groom 2.4 Measuring, marking and timekeeping - Mark Redknap 2.5 Seamarks, beacons and lighthouses - Mark Redknap 2.6 A house fit for a lifeboat - Sue Fielding Chapter 3: The sea’s rise and fall - J R L Allen and Martin Bell 3.1 West coast Palaeo-landscapes - Vince Gaffney and Simon Fitch 3.2 The evolution of the Menai Strait - Mike Roberts 3.3 Molluscs, middens and fishing - Martin Bell 3.4 Seascapes characterisation - Deanna Groom 3.5 Welsh floods - Mark Lewis Section 2: History at sea Chapter 4: Prehistoric and Roman boats - Seán McGrail 4.1 The golden boat of Caergwrle - Mark Redknap 4.2 Caldicot and Goldcliff - Nigel Nayling 4.3 Ships on coins in the Rogiet hoard - Edward Besly 4.4 Placing faith in divine aid - Evan Chapman 4.5 The Barland’s Farm boat - Nigel Nayling Chapter 5: Roman conquest and trade - Mark Redknap 5.1 Port facilities at Caerleon - Peter Guest 5.2 Late-Roman coastal defences - Mark Redknap 5.3 Roman trade and transport - Mark Lewis Chapter 6: Early medieval connections - Mark Redknap 6.1 Documentary sources for early medieval seafaring - Jonathan Wooding 6.2 Scandinavian coastal names - Mark Redknap 6.3 The Battle of the Menai Strait - Spencer Smith 6.4 A victim of The Smalls reef - Mark Redknap Chapter 7: The Middle Ages - Mark Redknap 7.1 The medieval dock at Beaumaris Castle - Mark Redknap 7.2 Rhuddlan Castle and the canalisation of the River Clwyd - Sian Rees 7.3 Flint: coastal fortress and centre of industry - Sian Rees 7.4 Ports and harbours of south-west Wales - Sian Rees 7.5 Two ships and their fates - Mark Redknap Chapter 8: Coracles to carracks - Mark Redknap 8.1 The Magor Pill ship: a medieval workhorse - Mark Redknap 8.2 The Newport ship - Nigel Nayling 8.3 Slates in the sea - Cecil D Jones 8.4 Ships on seals - Mark Redknap 8.5 Ships and religion - Mark Redknap 8.6 The Bardsey handgun - Mark Redknap Chapter 9: Maritime Wales in the Tudor period - J D Davies 9.1 Port books and trade - Mark Redknap 9.2 Tudor ship images - Mark Redknap 9.3 A Tudor trader’s house - Gerallt D Nash Chapter 10: Merchant shipping in the modern age - David Jenkins 10.1 Centres of Welsh shipbuilding - David Jenkins 10.2 The coastal trade - Colin Green 10.3 The trow: workhorse of the west - Colin Green 10.4 The ‘Mersey flat’ and the North Wales coastal trade - Mike Stammers 10.5 'Such store of fishe as pleased God to send' - Nikki Vousden and Deanna Groom 10.6 'Consider slavery' - Deanna Groom 10.7 The 'Bronze Bell' wreck - Sian Rees 10.8 Ships that roofed the world - David Gwyn and Deanna Groom 10.9 The Llyn Padarn and Llyn Peris boats - Mark Redknap 10.10 The Pembrokeshire lime trade - Deanna Groom 10.11 Coastal limekilns - C Stephen Briggs 10.12 Shipping dynasties and local shareholders - Deanna Groom 10.13 American vessels in Welsh waters - Ian Cundy and Deanna Groom 10.14 The coal trade - Graham Scott, Niall Callan and Deanna Groom 10.15 Transhipment from canal to ocean-going vessels - Heather James 10.16 Sarah and Primrose - Sian Rees 10.17 Sand factories - Deanna Groom 10.18 Ballast spotting - Mark Redknap and Jana Horák 10.19 Cable ships - Deanna Groom Section 3: Windows on the past Chapter 11: The lure of the sea - Deanna Groom 11.1 The royal yacht Mary - Sian Rees 11.2 On pleasure bent… - Deanna Groom 11.3 Packet services, pleasure steamers and ferry services - David Jenkins 11.4 The Kathleen & May - Colin Green 11.5 The Blue Riband - Deanna Groom 11.6 A M Dickie & Sons - Deanna Groom 11.7 Messing about in boats - Deanna Groom Chapter 12: Defending the coast of Wales - Stephen Hughes 12.1 The last invasion of the British Isles - Heather James 12.2 Victory spoils: Napoleonic cannon in Wales - Mark Redknap 12.3 Pembroke Dockyard: a great enterprise - Lawrie Phillips 12.4 Robert Seppings and HMS Conway - Deanna Groom 12.5 Faded glories: training ships - Mark Redknap 12.6 HMS Hamadryad - David Jenkins 12.7 The Resurgam submarine - Peter Holt 12.8 The H5 submarine - Sian Rees 12.9 Saunders-Roe, of Beaumaris, Anglesey - Medwyn Parry 12.10 Sunderland T9044: a unique survivor - David Pring 12.11 The Harlech Lightning - Sian Rees 12.12 The Royal Naval Patrol Service - Deanna Groom 12.13 Floating concrete - Deanna Groom 12.14 Modern warfare - Sian Rees Chapter 13: Ships as microcosms - Alan Aberg 13.1 A Roman sailors' joke? - Evan Chapman 13.2 Newport Ship carpenters' marks - Toby Jones 13.3 Food on board - Mark Redknap 13.4 Weapons on board - Mark Redknap 13.5 The Ann Francis - Mark Redknap 13.6 Finds from the royal yacht Mary - Sian Rees 13.7 Life aboard the 'Bronze Bell' - Sian Rees 13.8 The Royal Charter - Sian Rees Section 4: A relevant discipline Chapter 14: A future for our underwater past - Sian Rees 14.1 Wales's maritime archaeological record - Deanna Groom and Serena Cant 14.2 The naming of ships - Deanna Groom 14.3 Historic vessels afloat - M Heighton 14.4 Magnificent flying machines - Deanna Groom and Graham Scott 14.5 Recording techniques - Deanna Groom 14.6 The view from the air - Toby Driver 14.7 Climate change - Tom Pert 14.8 Intertidal wrecks in Swansea Bay - Nigel Nayling 14.9 Modelling the Newport ship - Toby Jones 14.10 Rescuing the Magor Pill hull - Mark Redknap 14.11 Documenting fishtraps - N V C Bannerman 14.12 Renewable energy - Sian Rees 14.13 Dredging for sand and gravel - Sian Rees 14.14 Waterfront regeneration; the Alice and the City of Ottawa - Fiona Gale 14.15 Eroding coastlines - Sian Rees Chapter 15: Maritime heritage and the law - Mike Williams 15.1 The Marine and Coastal Access Act - Sian Rees 15.2 State-owned vessels and aircraft - Mike Williams 15.3 Salvage law - Mike Williams 15.4 The Ann Francis: wreck and aftermath - Mark Redknap 15.5 Swallowing sands: the Dollar wreck - Mark Redknap 15.6 Smugglers, wreckers and pirates - Sian Rees Chapter 16: Museums: access for all - Mark Redknap and David Jenkins 16.1 The Nautical Archaeology Society - Mark Beattie Edwards and Ian Cundy 16.2 Archives as research sources - Lyn Francis 16.3 Models and replicas - Mark Redknap Glossary Notes Bibliography Contributors Acknowledgements Index

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Archaeological finds from Wales – including Bronze-Age boats, Roman ships and their cargoes, the medieval Newport ship and the seventeenth-century royal yacht Mary – testify to the long history of Wales as a seafaring nation. 'Wales and the Sea', written by some of Wales's foremost historians and archaeologists, reminds us of this long and hugely important maritime legacy. Fully illustrated, the book tells the story of prehistoric, Roman, medieval and more recent maritime history. It evokes the impact of the sea on the artistic imagination through coastal maps, naval paintings, seascapes, poetry, song and popular seaside souvenirs. Archive photographs from the National Monuments Record of Wales, the National Library of Wales and National Museum Wales bring to life the age of the ocean-going liner, the cable-laying ships that connected Wales to the rest of the world, the pleasure steamers, racing yachts and seaside piers as well as the busy docks that supplied slate, coal, iron and steel to the world. Comprehensive, up-to-date, rooted in scholarship but written to be enjoyed by the general reader, 'Wales and the Sea' is packed with stories and pictures that remind us of the vital role that the sea has played in the creation of Wales’s distinctive history.