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==MarineLives Online Research Seminar: Thursday, April 25th 2022==
  
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'''MarineLives is a collaborative volunteer driven project. The project started as a spinoff from a National Archives hackathon in early 2012. We are dedicated to the collaborative transcription, linkage and enrichment of primary manuscripts from the High Court of Admiralty, 1650-1669 (with some excursions into data from the 1630s and 1640s).'''
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'''We are holding an online research seminar at the end of April to introduce and demonstrate the SOLM-2024 Admiralty Court Database'''
  
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Currently, we have just over 10,000 images available (29 GB) and 11,400 pages of full text transcriptions on the MarineLives wiki.
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[[File:Seminar Agenda 05042024.JPG]]
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==Who will benefit from attending this seminar?==
  
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Please [http://marinelives.org/wiki/Special:MarineLivesContact contact us] if you would like to learn more about this summer's project and how you can help, or if you would more generally like to learn about the work of MarineLives volunteers.
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'''This seminar is intended for doctoral students, post-docs and early career scholars interested in exploring the potential of English High Court of Admiralty material'''
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1. Receive a free copy of the 24,000 deponent, 10,000 ship database (SOLM-2024) to support their personal research, in advance of the seminar
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2. Guidance at the seminar on how the database is structured, and how it can best be searched and used to address research questions
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3. Hands on experience of using the database, with free online access to 30,000 images which support the database
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4. Ongoing support for seminar participants after the seminar as they further explore and use the database
  
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<div style="font-size: normal;">'''Our volunteers make the MarineLives project special. Do please [http://marinelives.org/contact-us.html contact us] if you would like to discuss volunteering, or if you have ideas to improve our wiki.'''</div>
 
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We would like to recognise and thank all those who have contributed to our project (in alphabetical order), whether as volunteer transcribers, annotators, commentators, advisors, interviewees, or PhD Forum participants.
 
 
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Dr Aquiles Alencar-Brayner
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==Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database==
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Dr Roberta Anderson
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Deborah Ashby
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[[Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database]]
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Rachel Bates
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Rowan Beentje
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Dr Richard Blakemore
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Lior Blum
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Katie Broke
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Dr James Brown
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Dr Andy Burn
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Elio Calcagno
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Michelle María Early Capistrán
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Rachel Carter
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Giovanni Colavizza
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Dr Justin Colson
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Thierry Daunois
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Dr John Davies
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Thomas Davies
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Jonathan Dent
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Melvyn Dresner
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Dr Stuart Dunn
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Professor Kai Eckert
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Bob Egan
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Dr Charlene Eska
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Louise Falcini
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Emilie-Jane Farrimond
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Dr Janet Few
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Sara Fox
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Dr Ian Friel
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Dr Perry Gauci
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Marja Geesink
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Adam Georgie
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Jaap Geraerts
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Jamie LH Goodall
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Guy Grannum
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Colin Greenstreet
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Francesca Greenstreet
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Adam Grimshaw
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Karen Gunnell
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Yerevag Hagopian
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Dr Liam Haydon
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Phillipa Hellawell
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Dr Helmer Helmers
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Dr Philip Hnatkovich
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Rachel E. Holmes
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Dr Jenni Hyde
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Steve Ives
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Alex Jackson
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Stefan Jäggi
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Elin Jones
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Sue Jones
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Ross Keel
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Dr Patricia Keller
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William Kellett
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Sara Kerr
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John Kuhn
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John Layt
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Sjoerd Levelt
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John Levin
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Grace Mallon
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Simon Marsh
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Dr Alan Marshall
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John Miller
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Anne Mills
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Kate Morant
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[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/User:MatthiasMuellerProve Matthias Müller-Prove]
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Professor Steve Murdoch
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Dr Shavana Musa
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Harriet Richardson
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Gordon O'Sullivan
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Katherine Parker
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David Pashley
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Dr Cathryn Pearce
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Nga Phan-Bellis
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Jo Pugh
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Patrizia Rebulla
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Bethan Reynolds
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Daniel Richards
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Andrew Richens
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Dr Mia Ridge
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Dominique Ritze
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Dr Gavin Robinson
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Margaret Schotte
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Steven Schrum
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Laura Seymour
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Ida Sjoberg
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Edmond Smith
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Daniel Stewart-Roberts
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Chad Stolper
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Roger Towner
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Alexis Truax
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Dr William Tullett
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Oliver Turner
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Dr Brodie Waddell
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Samuel Watson
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Jill Wilcox
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Royline Williams-Fontenelle
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Ad van der Zee
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==Summer challenge, 2017: How to make money in C17th commercial shipping?==
 
  
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'''This summer the MarineLives project team is looking at the drivers of profit and loss in C17th commercial shipping. We will publish as we go and welcome comments, contradiction, and offers of help and data.'''
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==What we would like in return?==
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* Usability
 
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==Early results from our work==
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==What you will learn from attending the MarineLives online seminar on April 25th 2024==
  
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'''For the next two weeks we will be adding content to this section to illustrate the potential of the SOLM-2024 database. Today we are starting with Historical Geography.'''
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<div style="font-famil:Garamond; font-size: normal;">'''The starting point of our work this summer has been to create a semi-structured database containing quantitative and qualitative data about commercial and naval ships mentioned in English High Court of Admiralty documents between 1630 and 1669. This database draws on the work of our volunteers over the last five years, with transcriptions of depositions, charter parties, and bills of sale forming the main source of data for the database.'''</div>
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[[File:Ship Size Ver2 10072017.JPG|600px|thumbnail|left|]] We have ship tonnage data for 429 ships, of which the vast majority are commercial (n=407) and a small group are naval (n=22), mainly ships in the immediate service of the English Commonwealth, together with English private men of war, and a smattering of non-English naval vessels.
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There are two clear peaks in the data for commercial ships - the first peak is in the 55 to 99 ton burthen category and the second peak is in the 200 to 249 ton burthen category.
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<u>1. How to explore Early Modern Historical Geography using the SOLM-2024 database</u>
  
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Admiralty Court witnesses refer to ships of 50 and 60 tons as "small" and ships of 300 to 350 tons and above as "large". The smallest ton burthen category in our analysis (1-49 ton burthen) contains lighters, some barges and hoys, and other small river and coastal vessels.
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* 24,000 deponents with current place of abode at level of parish and town
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* 2258 deponents with current place of abode identifed and length of time spent at that place
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<div style="font-famil:Garamond; font-size: normal;">'''The size of our dataset for the analysis of ship age is one hundred and fifteen; of which thirteen datapoints simply state "new" or "old"; a further twenty-four datapoints are minimum ages, with the possibility that the ships were older; and seventy-eight datapoints give ship age accurate to the year. For these latter seventy-nine datapoints we have ship burthen data in tonnage for thirty-seven of them, which we display below in graphical form'''</div>
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The average age of ships for which we have age and tonnage data is 6.1 years (n=37), whereas the average age of ships for which we have age data accurate to the year for which we have no tonnage data is 7.1 years (n=41).
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[https://twitter.com/DrIanFriel Dr Ian Friel] has shared with us [https://twitter.com/DrIanFriel/status/884360083634892800 a summary of data from his unpublished survey of High Court of Admiralty inventory documents from the 1580s]. His data are for a period forty to eighty years earlier than our own High Court of Admiralty data. Ian's survey found ages for thirty-nine ships, with an average age of nearly fifteen years and twenty-nine of them of ten years or more in age.
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* 13,989 ship voyages linked to specific deponents with full or partial nodal descriptions
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* 8,589 depositions linked to named ships which are affiliated with specific ports of ownership
  
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Comparison of textual and numerical data for 1630-1670, with the bulk of the data from the 1650s, suggest Admiralty Court witnesses regarded ships aged between zero and five years as "new" and ships of fourteen years and above as "old".
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* 3,472 depositions linked to named ships with the voyage nodal patterns fully or partially identified and ship ladings identified for specific ports
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<div style="font-famil:Garamond; font-size: normal;">'''We have addressed this question by looking at the number of guns mounted on commercial and naval ships per hundred tons of ship burthen. The size of the relevant dataset is one hundred and twenty-nine ships, of which one hundred and six are commercial and twenty-three are naval.'''</div>
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[[File:Guns Per 100 Ton Burthen 11072017.JPG|600px|thumbnail|left|]] There is a huge range in gun intensity per hundred tons of ship burthen amongst commercial ships, with some, particularly the small commercial ships, carrying no guns or just lightly armed, and other commercial ships as heavily armed as naval ships.
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The commercial gun number average overestimates the gun carrying propensity of commercial ships, since there is a systematic tendency not to report absence of guns from smaller vessels (vessels of thirty to sixty tons burthen). Many of these vessels, particularly those involved in coastal trade or fishing, as hoys, busses and ketches, would not have carried guns.
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==This is a list of people who are confirmed participants in the seminar==
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'''If for any reason you need to drop out unexpectedly prior to the seminar, please give us at least a couple of days notice so we can fill your space'''
  
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* Seminar is limited to 20 participants
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* We will be using ZOOM, with details to be emailed to participants prior to the event
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* Online users guide to the database to be published on the MarineLives wiki by Friday April 12th 2024

Latest revision as of 06:03, April 10, 2024



MarineLives Online Research Seminar: Thursday, April 25th 2022


We are holding an online research seminar at the end of April to introduce and demonstrate the SOLM-2024 Admiralty Court Database

Seminar Agenda 05042024.JPG


Who will benefit from attending this seminar?


This seminar is intended for doctoral students, post-docs and early career scholars interested in exploring the potential of English High Court of Admiralty material

Participants will:

1. Receive a free copy of the 24,000 deponent, 10,000 ship database (SOLM-2024) to support their personal research, in advance of the seminar

2. Guidance at the seminar on how the database is structured, and how it can best be searched and used to address research questions

3. Hands on experience of using the database, with free online access to 30,000 images which support the database

4. Ongoing support for seminar participants after the seminar as they further explore and use the database


Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database


Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

What we would like in return?


In return the MarineLives project would appreciate:

1. Your commitment to working collaboratively as you explore your own research questions

2. Your willingness to offer suggestions on how to improve the database

  • Thematically
  • Searchability
  • Usability

What you will learn from attending the MarineLives online seminar on April 25th 2024


For the next two weeks we will be adding content to this section to illustrate the potential of the SOLM-2024 database. Today we are starting with Historical Geography.

1. How to explore Early Modern Historical Geography using the SOLM-2024 database

PEOPLE

  • 24,000 deponents with current place of abode at level of parish and town
  • 2258 deponents with current place of abode identifed and length of time spent at that place
  • 1675 deponents with place of birth identified


SHIPS

  • 13,989 ship voyages linked to specific deponents with full or partial nodal descriptions
  • 8,589 depositions linked to named ships which are affiliated with specific ports of ownership


MATERIALS

  • 3,472 depositions linked to named ships with the voyage nodal patterns fully or partially identified and ship ladings identified for specific ports


- We are growing this section on the geography and character of ship ladings in response to the geographical interests of database users. Participants in our online seminar on April 25th 2024 will have a chance to influence this according to their research interests


MICROHISTORY

  • Depositions related to:

- The Royal Exchange (and Exchanges elsewhere in continental Europe)
- Customs Houses
- Taverns, inns and victualling houses
- Private homes
- Warehouses and cellars
- Wharves and keys
- Shops

Length Of Time Resident 07042024.JPG
Place Of Ship 07042024.JPG
Voyage Nodal Points TWO 07042024.JPG
Ladings By Geography 07042024.JPG
Micor History 07042024.JPG

This is a list of people who are confirmed participants in the seminar


Seminar Participants 05042024.JPG


If for any reason you need to drop out unexpectedly prior to the seminar, please give us at least a couple of days notice so we can fill your space

  • Seminar is limited to 20 participants
  • We will be using ZOOM, with details to be emailed to participants prior to the event
  • Personal copies of the database to be emailed on Friday April 12th 2024
  • Online users guide to the database to be published on the MarineLives wiki by Friday April 12th 2024
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