Ports, Past and Present
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Featured Stories
The Incident of the Whale | Chwedl y Morfil
One day a sailor fell overboard. It happened that there was a whale nearby. The sailor fell into the whale's mouth. When the whale swallowed the sailor he found a case of oranges inside. He took out his knife and he cut a hole in the whale's side.…
The Ancient Fish Traps of Fishguard Bay | Trapiau pysgod hynafol ym Mae Abergwaun
It is thought that Fishguard was named from the Old Norse Fiskigarðr,a ‘fish catching enclosure’. What remains here today is very unlikely to date back that far but we know the style of low-walled hook-shaped trap is an ancient one. Remains of…
Women and the Ireland-Wales Crossing | Merched yn croesi rhwng Iwerddon a Chymru
When Mary Wollstonecraft crossed from Holyhead to Dublin – ‘the best and shortest passage’, she noted – in October 1786, she was lucky. ‘[T]he weather was fine the prospects delightful’, she wrote in a letter to Eliza Bishop, looking back on the…
Recent Stories
The Haunting of the HMS Asp | Ysbryd yn cerdded HMS Asp
In 1857, Pembroke Dock was the setting for the remarkable climax of the haunting of the HMS Asp which, at the time, was used as a surveying vessel in the Royal Navy under the command of one Captain George Manley Alldridge (1815–1905).
Over the…
The Ancient Fish Traps of Fishguard Bay | Trapiau pysgod hynafol ym Mae Abergwaun
It is thought that Fishguard was named from the Old Norse Fiskigarðr,a ‘fish catching enclosure’. What remains here today is very unlikely to date back that far but we know the style of low-walled hook-shaped trap is an ancient one. Remains of…
Wordsworth on the Holyhead Road | Wordsworth ar y Ffordd i Gaergybi
‘What dreadful weather!’ Dorothy Wordsworth exclaimed on 28 August 1829. She had ‘a hundred fears’ because her brother William was going to cross the Irish Sea from Holyhead the following night.As they would soon find out, ‘three vessels had been…
Women and the Ireland-Wales Crossing | Merched yn croesi rhwng Iwerddon a Chymru
When Mary Wollstonecraft crossed from Holyhead to Dublin – ‘the best and shortest passage’, she noted – in October 1786, she was lucky. ‘[T]he weather was fine the prospects delightful’, she wrote in a letter to Eliza Bishop, looking back on the…
The Incident of the Whale | Chwedl y Morfil
One day a sailor fell overboard. It happened that there was a whale nearby. The sailor fell into the whale's mouth. When the whale swallowed the sailor he found a case of oranges inside. He took out his knife and he cut a hole in the whale's side.…