ContentsForeword by The Right Honourable The Lord Elis-Thomas, PC, AM, Minister for Culture, Tourism and Sport in the Welsh GovernmentIntroduction: People and the sea: a common inheritance - Sian Rees and Mark Redknap Section 1: Seas to inspire and fearChapter 1: The sea in art, music and literature - Sian Rees1.1 Seafaring in medieval legend - Mark Redknap1.2 Medieval poets at sea - Mark Redknap1.3 Ships fashioned and scratched - Mark Redknap1.4 Visual imagery - Peter Wakelin1.5 Sailor souvenirs - Mark Redknap1.6 Pioneers of photography and film - Mark Redknap1.7 Songs of the sea - David Jenkins1.
8 The art of Francis Place - Mark RedknapChapter 2: For those in peril: navigation and safety - David Jenkins2.1 Medals for bravery - Edward Besly2.2 A cut above the rest: the pilot cutter - Daryl Leeworthy and Deanna Groom2.3 ''And now for the shipping forecast.'' - Deanna Groom2.4 Measuring, marking and timekeeping - Mark Redknap2.5 Seamarks, beacons and lighthouses - Mark Redknap2.6 A house fit for a lifeboat - Sue FieldingChapter 3: The sea''s rise and fall - J R L Allen and Martin Bell3.
1 West coast Palaeo-landscapes - Vince Gaffney and Simon Fitch3.2 The evolution of the Menai Strait - Mike Roberts3.3 Molluscs, middens and fishing - Martin Bell3.4 Seascapes characterisation - Deanna Groom3.5 Welsh floods - Mark LewisSection 2: History at seaChapter 4: Prehistoric and Roman boats - Seán McGrail4.1 The golden boat of Caergwrle - Mark Redknap4.2 Caldicot and Goldcliff - Nigel Nayling4.3 Ships on coins in the Rogiet hoard - Edward Besly4.
4 Placing faith in divine aid - Evan Chapman4.5 The Barland''s Farm boat - Nigel NaylingChapter 5: Roman conquest and trade - Mark Redknap5.1 Port facilities at Caerleon - Peter Guest5.2 Late-Roman coastal defences - Mark Redknap5.3 Roman trade and transport - Mark LewisChapter 6: Early medieval connections - Mark Redknap6.1 Documentary sources for early medieval seafaring - Jonathan Wooding6.2 Scandinavian coastal names - Mark Redknap6.3 The Battle of the Menai Strait - Spencer Smith6.
4 A victim of The Smalls reef - Mark RedknapChapter 7: The Middle Ages - Mark Redknap7.1 The medieval dock at Beaumaris Castle - Mark Redknap7.2 Rhuddlan Castle and the canalisation of the River Clwyd - Sian Rees7.3 Flint: coastal fortress and centre of industry - Sian Rees7.4 Ports and harbours of south-west Wales - Sian Rees7.5 Two ships and their fates - Mark RedknapChapter 8: Coracles to carracks - Mark Redknap8.1 The Magor Pill ship: a medieval workhorse - Mark Redknap 8.2 The Newport ship - Nigel Nayling8.
3 Slates in the sea - Cecil D Jones8.4 Ships on seals - Mark Redknap8.5 Ships and religion - Mark Redknap8.6 The Bardsey handgun - Mark RedknapChapter 9: Maritime Wales in the Tudor period - J D Davies9.1 Port books and trade - Mark Redknap9.2 Tudor ship images - Mark Redknap9.3 A Tudor trader''s house - Gerallt D NashChapter 10: Merchant shipping in the modern age - David Jenkins10.1 Centres of Welsh shipbuilding - David Jenkins10.
2 The coastal trade - Colin Green10.3 The trow: workhorse of the west - Colin Green10.4 The ''Mersey flat'' and the North Wales coastal trade - Mike Stammers 10.5 ''Such store of fishe as pleased God to send'' - Nikki Vousden and Deanna Groom10.6 ''Consider slavery'' - Deanna Groom10.7 The ''Bronze Bell'' wreck - Sian Rees10.8 Ships that roofed the world - David Gwyn and Deanna Groom10.9 The Llyn Padarn and Llyn Peris boats - Mark Redknap10.
10 The Pembrokeshire lime trade - Deanna Groom10.11 Coastal limekilns - C Stephen Briggs10.12 Shipping dynasties and local shareholders - Deanna Groom10.13 American vessels in Welsh waters - Ian Cundy and Deanna Groom 10.14 The coal trade - Graham Scott, Niall Callan and Deanna Groom10.15 Transhipment from canal to ocean-going vessels - Heather James10.16 Sarah and Primrose - Sian Rees10.17 Sand factories - Deanna Groom10.
18 Ballast spotting - Mark Redknap and Jana Horák10.19 Cable ships - Deanna GroomSection 3: Windows on the pastChapter 11: The lure of the sea - Deanna Groom11.1 The royal yacht Mary - Sian Rees11.2 On pleasure bent. - Deanna Groom 11.3 Packet services, pleasure steamers and ferry services - David Jenkins11.4 The Kathleen & May - Colin Green11.5 The Blue Riband - Deanna Groom11.
6 A M Dickie & Sons - Deanna Groom11.7 Messing about in boats - Deanna GroomChapter 12: Defending the coast of Wales - Stephen Hughes12.1 The last invasion of the British Isles - Heather James12.2 Victory spoils: Napoleonic cannon in Wales - Mark Redknap12.3 Pembroke Dockyard: a great enterprise - Lawrie Phillips12.4 Robert Seppings and HMS Conway - Deanna Groom12.5 Faded glories: training ships - Mark Redknap12.6 HMS Hamadryad - David Jenkins12.
7 The Resurgam submarine - Peter Holt12.8 The H5 submarine - Sian Rees12.9 Saunders-Roe, of Beaumaris, Anglesey - Medwyn Parry12.10 Sunderland T9044: a unique survivor - David Pring12.11 The Harlech Lightning - Sian Rees12.12 The Royal Naval Patrol Service - Deanna Groom12.13 Floating concrete - Deanna Groom12.14 Modern warfare - Sian ReesChapter 13: Ships as microcosms - Alan Aberg13.
1 A Roman sailors'' joke? - Evan Chapman13.2 Newport Ship carpenters'' marks - Toby Jones13.3 Food on board - Mark Redknap13.4 Weapons on board - Mark Redknap13.5 The Ann Francis - Mark Redknap13.6 Finds from the royal yacht Mary - Sian Rees13.7 Life aboard the ''Bronze Bell'' - Sian Rees13.8 The Royal Charter - Sian ReesSection 4: A relevant disciplineChapter 14: A future for our underwater past - Sian Rees14.
1 Wales''s maritime archaeological record - Deanna Groom and Serena Cant14.2 The naming of ships - Deanna Groom14.3 Historic vessels afloat - M Heighton14.4 Magnificent flying machines - Deanna Groom and Graham Scott14.5 Recording techniques - Deanna Groom14.6 The view from the air - Toby Driver14.7 Climate change - Tom Pert14.8 Intertidal wrecks in Swansea Bay - Nigel Nayling14.
9 Modelling the Newport ship - Toby Jones14.10 Rescuing the Magor Pill hull - Mark Redknap14.11 Documenting fishtraps - N V C Bannerman14.12 Renewable energy - Sian Rees14.13 Dredging for sand and gravel - Sian Rees14.14 Waterfront regeneration; the Alice and the City of Ottawa - Fiona Gale14.15 Eroding coastlines - Sian ReesChapter 15: Maritime heritage and the law - Mike Williams15.1 The Marine and Coastal Access Act - Sian Rees15.
2 State-owned vessels and aircraft - Mike Williams15.3 Salvage law - Mike Williams15.4 The Ann Francis: wreck and aftermath - Mark Redknap15.5 Swallowing sands: the Dollar wreck - Mark Redknap15.6 Smugglers, wreckers and pirates - Sian ReesChapter 16: Museums: access for all - Mark Redknap and David Jenkins16.1 The Nautical Archaeology Society - Mark Beattie Edwards and Ian Cundy16.2 Archives as research sources - Lyn Francis16.3 Models and replicas - Mark RedknapGlossaryNotesBibliographyContributorsAcknowledgementsIndex.