Wars With America 1776 - 1815
Author(s): Andrew T E Whitefield
Year: 2013
Summary
Shipbuilding by James Martin Hilhouse at Bristol during this period of conflict. This young man aged 24 founded in 1772 a shipbuilding business that lasted 200 years and built large warships and merchantmen in Dockyards on the Avon that no longer exist but there is valuable archival material and some recent archaeological surveys have taken place.
How did he use the experience gained by his apprenticeship to the Master Shipwright in Royal Dockyards for the benefit of Bristol merchants with strong trading links with America and the West Indies and did the wars affect Bristol to a greater extent than elsewhere in the country? Hilhouse employed many shipwrights and apprentices building warships' privateers, merchantmen and cutters but his contribution to the City has yet to be fully recognised.
Cite this Record
Wars With America 1776 - 1815. Andrew T E Whitefield. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428268)
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Keywords
General
Navy
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Shipbuilding
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Trade
Geographic Keywords
United Kingdom
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Western Europe
Temporal Keywords
Georgian
Spatial Coverage
min long: -8.158; min lat: 49.955 ; max long: 1.749; max lat: 60.722 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 139