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Smuggling Craft Key. SW = H.N. Shore "Smuggling Days and Smuggling Ways" 1892 S/M = SHERBORNE MERCURY - CHR = CUSTOM HOUSE RECORDS - C/N = CORNISHMAN NEWSPAPER W/B/ = WEST BRITON NEWSPAPER - PRO = Public Records Office - J/W = JAMES WHETTER "CORNWALL FROM THE NEWSPAPERS 1781 -93" H/J = A.K.HAMILTON-JENKINS "CORNWALL AND IT'S PEOPLE" - JRJ = JEREMY ROWETT JOHNS "THE SMUGGLERS BANKER" TEP = Trewman's Exeter Flying Post TCS = John Vivian "Tales of Cornish Smugglers" - SoF = Henry H Shore "Smugglers of Fowey" 1910 BG = Baring Gould "a book of the west" 1899 - SIC = Smugglers In Cornwall, Frank Graham B. = Barbra, Looe Museum. - Cn = C Noall, Smuggling in Cornwall - RCG = Royal Cornwall Gazette C/M = CORNISH MAGAZINE 1898 - PCH = PENZANCE CUSTOM HOUSE - P/G = PENZANCE GAZETTE R/N = R.J.NOALL "A HISTORY OF St. IVES" - CRO = CORNWALL RECORD OFFICE. |
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Boat |
Crew Names |
Date |
Ref. |
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Adventurer |
Richard Thomas & Dionysius Williams Joint owners |
1805 |
CRO ref. X20/38 - date: 1805 |
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Ant |
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1824 |
SW |
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Arethusa |
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Cawsand 1824 |
SW |
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Argus |
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Cherbourg 1833 |
SW |
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Asp |
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1824 |
SW |
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Auguste |
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France 1837 |
SW |
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Aurore |
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Roscoff 1832 |
SW |
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Assistance |
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Captured by the Hind 1793 |
JRJ |
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Betsy |
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Cherbourg 1833 |
SW |
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Bien Aime |
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Cherbourg 1833 |
SW |
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Black Prince |
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Galloway and Dumfrieshire 1700s |
SW |
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Boconnoc |
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Fowey 1840s |
SW |
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Bold Venture |
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Looe 1835 |
SW |
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Bee |
Kingcup |
1833 |
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Brilliant |
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JRJ |
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Cherbourg |
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Perranporth |
CN |
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Chesse Maree |
Smuggling Lugger |
captured by Dolphin taken to St Michael's Mount |
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Duchess of Buccleigh |
Crew impressed onto HMS Wolf |
Penzance Jan 1771 |
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Dove False name Rough |
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Cawsand 1833 |
SW |
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Daniel and William |
Kirkland |
Looe 1934 |
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Eagle (false name) |
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Roscoff, Fowey, Coverack 1832 |
SW |
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Edward & Betsy |
Smuggling Vessel |
Falmouth |
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Experiment |
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Falmouth 1934 |
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Expectation |
Lugger belonging to Looe |
Captured by the Active with 515 casks of Spirits and 7 bales of Tobacco |
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Expectation |
Cutter belonging Polperro |
Captured by the Active with 253 casks of Spirits |
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Friends Endeavour |
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of Cawsand 1833 |
SoF |
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Elizabeth |
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Sloop caught with cargo of Geneva 1768 |
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Elizabeth |
Jean-Marie Yves Creach, |
Dec. 4th 1831 Captured and cut up at St Ives |
TCS |
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Four Brothers |
" |
Running cargo to Cawsands |
" |
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Five Sisters |
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Captured off Cawsand by Mr Foot Rev. Off. |
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Friends" of Falmouth |
? |
Wrecked by Wherry Mine, Penzance |
TCS |
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Flora |
of Fowey |
Captured By Nymphe |
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Flora |
of Fowey |
Captured by Hind laden with 822 casks |
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Fly |
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Captured by "Active" with 450 casks of spirits |
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Falcon |
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Captured by the Salidwich Revenue Cutter and taken into Scilly laden with tea tobacco and spirits |
August 1st 1792 |
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Fox |
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Harpy, revenue cutter, captured the , Cawsand boat , off the Lizard, which proved to have on board 127 tubs or half ankers of smuggled spirits. The crew, consisting of four men, were also taken. |
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Friendship |
of Coverack |
Captured by Active with 170 casks of spirits some salt and tobacco |
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Captured By Dolphin with 440 kegs of Spirits. |
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Good Intent |
of Guernsey |
Captured by Active with 100 casks of spirits |
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The Goddess of Voyages |
of Mevagissy, Parnall, Master |
Found drifting with no one aboard but with a cargoe of smuggled goods. |
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Happy-Go-Lucky |
Thomas Welland |
Fight off Cawsand Escaped |
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Happy-Go-Lucky |
Thomas Welland |
Captured of Mullion |
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Help (false name) Real name Dove of Cawsand |
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Roscoff, Plymouth 1833 |
SW |
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Happy Return |
Richard Rowett |
Captured by the Spider 1795 |
JRJ |
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Harmony |
Kirkland |
1833 |
SoF |
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Henriette |
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Scilly 1934 |
SoF |
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Hope | ||||
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Hopeful |
Richard Quick mate |
Penberth Cove Oct. 1768 |
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Jane |
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Fowey 1934 |
SoF |
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Hopeful |
Richard Quick mate |
Penberth Cove Oct. 1768 |
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Jessie |
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Bude 1844 |
CN |
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Joseph |
Lugger from Cadgwith |
captured by Active with 140 casks of Spirits |
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Jubilee |
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Captured Bude March 1835 |
CN |
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Kingfisher of London |
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Sennen 1835 |
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La Desirie |
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Bude 1841 |
CN |
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La Vigilance |
From Roscoff |
Newquay 1838 |
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Le Commerce |
? |
Captured off St Ives Nov. 1840 |
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Lottery |
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Polperro 1798 |
SIC |
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Love |
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Fowey 1826ca |
SW |
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Love (false name) |
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Roscoff, Coverack, Fowey 1833 |
SW |
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Little Henry |
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1833 |
SoF |
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Liberty |
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Landing carge Fowey 1834 |
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Lion |
Cutter from Guernsey |
Captured by Dolphin taken to Penzance |
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Maria |
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1829 Smuggling Lugger |
SW |
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Marina |
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Bude 1844 |
CN |
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Maria Victoria |
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St. Mawes 1839 |
SW |
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Mary |
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Cawsand 1830s? |
SW |
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Mary |
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Plymouth 1820s? |
SW |
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Mary Ann |
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Cawsand 1834 |
SW |
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Mary Ann |
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Tresco, Scilly 1830 Convicted of smuggling |
SW |
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| Morgan Rattler | smuggling lugger | belonging to Polperro from Guernsey burden with 644 casks of spirits. | RCG August 1st 1801 | |
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Neptune |
John Thwaite, Master |
Penzance Jan 1740 |
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One and All |
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Fowey 1840s? |
SW |
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Pelam |
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Bude 1844 |
CN |
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Pearl |
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Captured by the Hind with spirits & tobacco. |
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Providence |
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captured in the Channel by the "Zenobia" brig of war with 300 casks of smuggled spirits onboard. |
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Providence and Ann |
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Fowey 1834 |
SoF |
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Providence of Padstow |
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December 1839 |
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Pheasant |
William Quiller |
1804 |
JRJ |
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Pigeon |
Bruger, |
Scilly1828 |
SW |
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Place |
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Fowey 1840s? |
SW |
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Rose of Gweek |
James Richards, William & John Gilbert, Wm Chaffer & Wm. Curtis |
wrecked at St Micheals Mount whilst landing goods |
TCS |
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Swallow |
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JRJ |
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Speedwell |
Richard Badge |
Seized, 5 Mar. 1830. Broken up & burnt at Tresco IoS. |
Badge Family (see below) |
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Sedwell |
William Johns |
seized in 1797 sold at Auction |
JRJ |
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Stag Ex Brilliant customs cutter |
? |
Fight off Cawsand one of crew killled a navy Midshipman vessel and crew escaped | TEP 11th April 1816 | |
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St George |
Cap't James Williams |
Landed cargo St Ives May 1851 |
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Tam o Shanter |
Richard Kingcup |
Fowey |
SoF |
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Tamar of Padstow |
Peter Osborne |
Newquay 1842 |
CN |
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Teignmouth |
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Coverack Sept. 1840 |
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The Golden Cherubs |
Cap't. Thomas Jacob |
Wrecked Tintagel 1703 |
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Three Brothers |
Quiller |
1790 |
JRJ |
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Truro of London |
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St Ives 1831 |
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Tryall |
Sloop of Gweek |
Captured by Active with 312 Caske of Spirits on board |
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Unity |
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Captured by Active with 438 casks of spirits |
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Unity |
Richard Rowett |
1805 |
JRJ |
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Unity |
Richard Kingcup |
Bringing over 200 Tubs 1834 |
SoF |
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Velocity |
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Bude 1844 |
CN |
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? |
John Clemence |
Captured by the Spider 1795 |
JRJ |
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Wellington |
Cap't. Teed & John Spiller |
Seized by the Sylvia at Penzance |
TCS |
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