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Robert Malster’s Maritime Suffolk – A history of 1,500 years of seafaring completes a series of titles which includes Maritime Norfolk (Part I the Norfolk coast and Part 2 covering the East coast), North Sea War 1914-1919 and Julian Foynes’ East Anglia Against the Tricolour.
These books are enlightening and engaging and to be recommended to both academic and lay readers.
International Journal of Maritime History on Maritime Norfolk Parts One and Two.
During 400 years of Roman domination Suffolk ports were supplying the army on Hadrian’s Wall with grain; in Saxon time s Ipswich was importing wine and millstones from the Rhineland; in the time of Edward I the town of Ipswich was orderd by the King to build a galley for his French wars.
The industrial revolution brought new trades to be exploited by Suffolk seafarers. At the same time that emigrants were leaving the Orwell for a new life on the other side of the Atlantic, a new harbour was constructed at Lowestoft, an enterprising dock scheme was carried out at Ipswich and coasting vessels from Orford were helping to distribute the implements made in Suffolk ironworks and to bring in the raw materials of the new artificial fertilizer industry.
One ambitious project failed at that time. A dock at Felixstowe that was intended to be the base for a steamer serveice to northern Europe fell victim to the opposition of a railway company that was developing its own port on the other side of Harwich harbour. However, in the twentieth century that unsuccessful project blossomed into the largest and busiest container port in Britain.
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