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Description: | The collections represent the social history of the maritime communities, the Atlantic slave trade, manufactured products for export and raw imported materials. Other maritime themes include naval ships adopted by or named after local towns, local boat types such as the Morecambe Bay prawner and also the Lancaster Port Commission, its lighthouse at Walney and landmark at Fleetwood. The small group of preserved Vessels includes the 1934 Fishermen's Lifeboat 'Sir William Priestley', 'Coronation Rose', a 1911 bay boat, the skiff 'Camelia' and whammel-boat 'Hannah.'
Other themes include shipping, coastal defence, maritime crafts, over 40 ship models, navigation equipment and plans/charts relating to Morecambe Bay, local rivers and coastal areas, inshore fishing equipment including items relating to shrimp-trawling, cockling, musselling, salmon fishing and also fishing activities on the River Lune. | Subjects: | Maritime | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Custom House
St George's Quay
Lancaster,
LA1 1RB | FAX: | 01524 841692 | Telephone: | 01524 64637 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:1752 | Go to resource |
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