Brocklebanks 1770 - 1950
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These 2 volumes tell the history of Brocklebanks, one of the oldest companies in shipping. The founder was Captain Daniel Brocklebank, a shipmaster and shipbuilder, whose shipbuilding enterprise was first established at Sheepscutt (near Portland, Maine) in 1770. Brocklebank was a Loyalist and when the Revolution broke out in 1775 he sailed back to Whitehaven in his own ship. He re-started his shipbuilding business at Whitehaven in 1785 and the plans and specifications of his yard's products from 1792 are one of the most important sources for eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century merchant ships. The volumes tell the history of the company until 1950. It contains a family tree of the Brocklebank family and contains many black and white and coloured illustrations of the ships built. The blue boards of both volumes are in very good condition showing very slight rubbing. Both have foxing on the page edges and on the inside of the front boards, but not through the text, which is clean and bright with no markings. The two dust jackets have a tanned spine and slight wear and tear on the top edges.
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