Portland Museum is winner of Society of Museum Archaeology’s Volunteering award by Portland Museum Portland Museum are honoured to announce that we have been chosen as the winner of the Society of Museum Archaeology’s ‘‘Volunteering Award category for ‘Diving into the Digital Archives of the ‘Earl of Abergavenny’’. We would like to thank all of…
Captain and Cargo Captained by John Wordsworth, brother of the Romantic poet, William Wordsworth, the Earl of Abergavenny was one of the largest trading ships of its time. A Quiet Master Contrary perhaps to the typical image of a ship’s captain, John Wordsworth was known by his shipmates as ‘the philosopher’. He could often be…
Life on board the Earl of Abergavenny Everyday life on board the Earl of Abergavenny would very much depend on your status, gender, and reasons for travelling. Nowhere is this more apparent than looking at the different types of food available to the travellers and the design of the ship itself. Share An Interesting scene…
The Earl of Abergavenny The Earl of Abergavenny was a British East Indiaman on a trading voyage from Portsmouth to Bengal and China. On the evening of February 5th 1805, a combination of human error, the peculiarities of the local coastline and stormy weather forced the ship onto the notorious Shambles sandbank, located 2 1/2…
The Earl of Abergavenny The story of the Earl of Abergavenny is as dramatic and tragic as any recorded. A British East Indiaman, on a trading voyage from Portsmouth to Bengal and China, it was wrecked on the evening of February 5th 1805. A combination of human error, the peculiarities of the local coastline and…