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Maritime

Shock and awe: Thomas Phillips and the Hellburner Infernal, 1693

Thomas Phillips illustrated the famous Legge Report, a survey of the Channel islands completed in 1680. His return to the island he had so carefully studied was to prove fatal to him.

The Elizabeth, 1745

From The Gentlemen's Magazine , XV, p. 694. The Elizabeth , MacKenzie, from Virginia, taken the 15th inst. off Falmouth, by the Lys privateer of St Maloes, and the same night lost on the rocks off Guernsey, but two English and eleven Frenchmen saved.

October 1822

Extracts from the French language local newspaper L'Indépendance, and the English-language Star.

The Swift cutter, April 24 1800

From the London Chronicle, 1800. A Polperro smuggler nearly escapes at Guernsey.

September 1806

Alderney Races, among other things, featuring Mackenzie's brown mare, called Snowball!

September 1649: Colonel Popham hunts a Prince

Colonel Edward Popham reports on his search for Prince Charles, who was suspected of attempting to take refuge in Jersey, which he had already visited in 1646. Popham must have missed him, because Charles did find his way to Jersey in that month, and stayed until February of 1650.

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Maritime

Shock and awe: Thomas Phillips and the Hellburner Infernal, 1693

The Elizabeth, 1745

October 1822

The Swift cutter, April 24 1800

September 1806

September 1649: Colonel Popham hunts a Prince

Diving Experiment III; the Orchard brothers make progress

The Steam Packets

Cadiz again: 1826

Diving Experiment II: more about the Orchard brothers, 1833

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