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Shipwrecks were disasters for merchants and mariners, but opportunities for shore dwellers. As the proverb said, it was an ill wind that blew nobody any good. Lords of manors, local officials, officers of the Admiralty, and coastal commoners competed for maritime cargoes and the windfall of wreckage, which they regarded as providential godsends or entitlements by right. A varied haul of commodities, wines, furnishings, and bullion came ashore, much of it claimed by the crown. The people engaged in salvaging these wrecks came to be called 'wreckers', and gained a reputation as violent and barbarous plunderers. Close attention to statements of witnesses and reports of survivors shows this image to be largely undeserved. Dramatic evidence from previously unexplored manuscript sources reveals coastal communities in action, collaborating as well as competing, as they harvested the bounty of the sea.
Shipwrecks were disasters for merchants and mariners, but opportunities for shore dwellers. As the proverb said, it was an ill wind that blew nobody any good. Lords of manors, local officials, officers of the Admiralty, and coastal commoners competed for maritime cargoes and the windfall of wreckage, which they regarded as providential godsends or entitlements by right. A varied haul of commodities, wines, furnishings, and bullion came ashore, much of it claimed by the crown. The people engaged in salvaging these wrecks came to be called 'wreckers', and gained a reputation as violent and barbarous plunderers. Close attention to statements of witnesses and reports of survivors shows this image to be largely undeserved. Dramatic evidence from previously unexplored manuscript sources reveals coastal communities in action, collaborating as well as competing, as they harvested the bounty of the sea.
- Introduction
- 1: Ships at Risk
- 2: The Perils of the Sea
- 3: Wreccum Maris: The Law of 'Wreck of the Sea'
- 4: The Barbarous Country People
- 5: The Great Profit of the Lords of Manors
- 6: The Lord Admiral's Droits and His Majesty's Profit
- 7: Shipwreck Tales from Sea and Shore
- 8: The Bounty of the Golden Grape
- 9: Mariners in Distress
- 10: Material Bounty Brought Ashore
- 11: Deep Recovery
- 12: Eighteenth-Century Wrecking Revisited
- Appendix: Two Centuries of Shipwrecks
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Thema: | Lexika |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | Gebunden |
| ISBN-13: | 9780192863393 |
| ISBN-10: | 0192863398 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Cressy, David |
| Hersteller: | Oxford University Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de |
| Maße: | 224 x 165 x 38 mm |
| Von/Mit: | David Cressy |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 19.12.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,658 kg |
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