This volume collects the papers given at a seminar concerning the maritime history of the South-West of England, which took place at Dartington Hall in October 1967, under the auspices of the Department of Economic History, University of Exeter.

Chapters consider: the South-West and the Atlantic trades, 1660–1770; Westcountrymen in Prince Edward’s Isle; British shipping and British North American shipbuilding in the early nineteenth century; Shipping at the port of Dartmouth in the nineteenth century; Customhouse ship registers of the West Country.