Marine Lives

Birkbeck CollegeJune 26th 2013

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Cast of charactersMr Ewens (deceased)Mrs Ewens (owner of ballast wharf)Richard Prior/Pryor (lighterman)William Harris, servant of Mr Monger Water baylyff of the citie of London, aged 48 yeeresAnthony Deane of Greenwich Shipwright aged 25 yeeresWilliam Ballow of Greenwich ferriman, aged 30 yeeresHenry Wilson of Greenwich labourer, aged 40 yeeresEdward Makketuer of Wapping in the parish of Stepney Lighterman, aged fifty three yearesEdward Ryder of Shadwell in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Long Cutler aged thirty one yearesJohn Orton of Wapping Wall, Cooke, aged fourtie two yearesGregory Parbury of Lambeth Lighterman aged 50 yeeres

"In or about the Moneth of June last past hee this deponent being in the streete att Wapping Wall by accident mett with the said James Browne who then and there told this deponent that hee was now goeing out upon a desperate designe upon the tearmes and conditions of Noe Purchase Noe pay and then asked this deponent whether they should drinke together before his departure, to which this deponent condescended and soe went into the Blacksmiths Armes upon Wapping Wall together with the said Browne, And saith that about 3 weekes or a month since this deponent together with his contest John Hearne being att one Bells howse in Water lane in Tower streete London and heareing that the said James Browne and the arlate James Salmon were returned from a voyage which they had lately made to Sea in a man of warre sent for the said James Browne to come and drincke a cup of beere with them..." (Deponent: Richard Prior, lage 30, lighterman of Wapping in the parish of Stepney; Date: March 22nd, 1651/52; Case: Thomas Awres and Company against a ship of an unknowne name laden with Corne and other goods and against Sophia Ernest Casper and others)

Disputed factsDistance of Prior’s lighters from the Mr Ewens’ ballast wharf

Customary practice by Mr Ewens’ own lightermen

Extent and cost of damage supposedly caused

Legal issuesExistence and relevance of statutory regulations for ballast removal?

Customary practice by Thames lightermen and ballast wharf owners?

Nature of possible remedy?

Role of the Ballast Office and its officers?

Ballast trade

The physical Thames

SEARCH TERMS: Mud, ooze, shoare

HCA 13/72 f.200r P1150307

The wintery Thames

The Thames at Erith frozen over, 1895, with Upper Ballast Wharf and trapped boats and barges

SEARCH TERMS: Ice, ffrost, ffrozen

“Did then and there the said Jervase Russell earnestly desire and urge the said Bewly and Wynne to take theire Wines out of the said shippe, with all speed for that hee feared that ffrosts would suddenly come to the greate preiudice”(HCA 13/65 unfol. , deposition of Henry Tooke, mariner, age 35, of Horsey Downe in the parishe of Saint Olave Southwarke)"The Catherine arlate had layen and rode att an Anchor att or neere Debtford by the space of about .10. dayes and not before the River of Thames grewe and became very much ffrozen and the ffrost hee saith continued and encreased in such soe that in order to the preservation of such ships and their lading as laye laden in the said River there was a necessity of haleing them ashore, and soe much hee saith was done unto all the ships which then Rode in the said River both Laden and Unladen att or neere Debtford for feare least otherwise they and theire loadeing might have bin lost”(HCA 13/65 unfol., deposition of John Mason, marriner, age 79, of Debtford in the County of Kent)

Bewly and Wynne against Russell February 1651/52

The Thames shoreside

SEARCH TERMS: Wharves, keys, chainsShip yards, mast yards, timber yardsBreweries, butchers, grocers

River trafficSEARCH TERMS: Lighters, hoys, wherries, collision

On December 18th 1651 "The said Lighter did lye fast moored over a Racke that had beene sunke in the River of Thames neere Lower Chalk Wharfe about half a mile from Gravesend and was there imployed to weigh Ordnance and iron out of the said Racke where shee had layen and beene in that imployment now eight monthes" (HCA 13/65 unfol., deposition of Edward Bolton, mariner, of Northfleete near Gravesend in the County of Kent)

“It is usuall to pay a Lighterman or a Tydesman for his labor for every Tyde 3 or 4s a tyde according to agreement and their paynes taken in theire imployment“(HCA 13/65 unfol., deposition of George Adds, servant to Thomas May, owner of the lighter called the May fflower)

“Hee found her soe much out of repaire and soe rotten, that hee refused to proceede on in her repaire till hee spake with mr Coltman who recommended the said worke unto him; whereupon mr Coltman accompanied with mr dandy wharfinger of the Customshouse came over, and viewed the said lighter and being made acquainted with her defects, hee desired the said John Mayor to goe on and to repaire her in what ever was needfull, which hee accordingly did, and hired men and laid out moneys for their wages and for materialls, and saith the said repaires happened and were done in or about the moneth of November 1654 and that the particulars thereof were in all things and of the severall valewes mentioned in the schedule annexed”(HCA 13/71 f.15v, deposition of Isaac Mayers of horsey downe Shippwright aged 24 yeeres)

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HCA 13/65 unfol. P1180290

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HCA 13/72 f.115v P1150138

HCA 13/65 unfol. P1180292

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Thames estuary

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Thames shipyards in 1650s