MARINERS MIRRORPub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00253359.2007.10657034
Amilcar D'Avila de Mello
{"title":"PETER CARDER'S STRANGE ADVENTURES REVEALED","authors":"Amilcar D'Avila de Mello","doi":"10.1080/00253359.2007.10657034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2007.10657034","url":null,"abstract":"Peter Carder, one of Francis Drake’s sailors during his famous voyage around the world (1577–80), was born in Saint Verian, Cornwall. Carder’s travel account containing his vicissitudes in South America was published in Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas His Pilgrimes (London, 1625), and has apparently been accepted at face value ever since. The purpose of this article is to conduct a brief analysis of major inconsistencies and contradictions found in his narrative, drawing on supplemental factual and ethnographic data. New light will be cast on this Elizabethan seaman who seems to have exaggerated his story to make it more heroic. There is, however, another possibility: Carder’s narrative may have been ‘edited’ by Samuel Purchas to meet the expectations of his adventure-hungry readership.1 (Fig. 1)","PeriodicalId":44123,"journal":{"name":"MARINERS MIRROR","volume":"93 1","pages":"261 - 268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00253359.2007.10657034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59066705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MARINERS MIRRORPub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00253359.2007.10657028
A. Mariner, Fni
{"title":"THE BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO SEAFARERS' WELFARE IN MEDITERRANEAN AND BLACK SEA PORTS SINCE THE 1820s","authors":"A. Mariner, Fni","doi":"10.1080/00253359.2007.10657028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2007.10657028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44123,"journal":{"name":"MARINERS MIRROR","volume":"363 1","pages":"65-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00253359.2007.10657028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59066654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MARINERS MIRRORPub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00253359.2006.10656982
Anthony G. A. Brown
{"title":"THE NORE MUTINY—SEDITION OR SHIPS' BISCUITS? A REAPPRAISAL","authors":"Anthony G. A. Brown","doi":"10.1080/00253359.2006.10656982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2006.10656982","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44123,"journal":{"name":"MARINERS MIRROR","volume":"1 1","pages":"60 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00253359.2006.10656982","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59066492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MARINERS MIRRORPub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00253359.2006.10657014
J. Macdonald
{"title":"TWO YEARS OFF PROVENCE: THE VICTUALLING AND HEALTH OF NELSON'S FLEET IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1803 to 1805","authors":"J. Macdonald","doi":"10.1080/00253359.2006.10657014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2006.10657014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44123,"journal":{"name":"MARINERS MIRROR","volume":"92 1","pages":"443 - 454"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00253359.2006.10657014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59066604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MARINERS MIRRORPub Date : 2005-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00253359.2005.10656971
Emma Haxhaj
{"title":"MORE BANG FOR A BOB: THE DECISION TO ‘GO NUCLEAR’ AND ITS IMPACT ON CHATHAM DOCKYARD","authors":"Emma Haxhaj","doi":"10.1080/00253359.2005.10656971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2005.10656971","url":null,"abstract":"The devastation caused by the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 signalled a chilling new departure in warfare. The threat of total destruction became the overriding feature of the Cold War, with possession of the latest in nuclear weapons technology defining the World’s dominant powers. In order to retain some vestige of world power status Britain strove to possess its own independent nuclear deterrent. Many of the resulting implications, from the economic and strategic consequences to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, have been subject of historical study already. Some very good works tracing the history of the nuclear deterrent have also been produced, with Nailor’s detailed official history of the Polaris project and the collection of essays by those involved in the project’s implementation in Moore’s The Impact of Polaris, providing just two examples. 4 One area that is rarely considered, however, is the impact of the decision to ‘go nuclear’ on the state-controlled, royal dockyards.","PeriodicalId":44123,"journal":{"name":"MARINERS MIRROR","volume":"40 1","pages":"554 - 571"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00253359.2005.10656971","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59066725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MARINERS MIRRORPub Date : 2003-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00253359.2003.10659293
P. Le Fevre
{"title":"‘IT WILL BE A CHARGE TO THE KING TO NO EFFECT’: THE FAILED ATTEMPT TO BURN THE ALGERINE FLEET IN 1679","authors":"P. Le Fevre","doi":"10.1080/00253359.2003.10659293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2003.10659293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44123,"journal":{"name":"MARINERS MIRROR","volume":"35 1","pages":"272 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00253359.2003.10659293","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59066111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MARINERS MIRRORPub Date : 2000-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00253359.2000.10659259
Tom Wareham
{"title":"THE DURATION OF FRIGATE COMMAND DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY AND NAPOLEONIC WARS","authors":"Tom Wareham","doi":"10.1080/00253359.2000.10659259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2000.10659259","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44123,"journal":{"name":"MARINERS MIRROR","volume":"86 1","pages":"412 - 423"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00253359.2000.10659259","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59066072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}