Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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7 June 1703: A list of shares in ship-owning partnerships held by Samuel Pinder of Whitby on this date

Dirk Eversen Lons’s 1642 print of a fisher’s pink, from his series of ten types of Dutch inland ships. The verse, “Om kleyne winst en sobre vangst / De zeeman dickwils is in angst,” could be translated as “For modest catch and meagre gain / The seaman oftentimes fears pain”

Dirk Eversen Lons’s 1642 print of a fisher’s pink, from his series of ten types of Dutch inland ships. The verse, “Om kleyne winst en sobre vangst / De zeeman dickwils is in angst,” could be translated as “For modest catch and meagre gain / The seaman oftentimes fears pain” (Lons 1642).

George Young. 1817. A History of Whitby, and Streoneshalh Abbey, Vol. 2. Whitby: Clark and Medd. Get it:

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In an inventory of the goods of Samuel Pinder … taken June 7th, 1703, are these items: “In shipping. In his own vessel, six 16ths, ⅓, one 64th part – £160. In one 32th of William Johnson vessel – £30. In one 32th of Stephen Russell pinque – £13. In one 32th Richard Chapman pinque – £7 10s. In one 32th Ebo. Marshall ship – £20. In one 32th Henry Pearson ship – £20. In one 32th William Fotherley ship – £20. In one 32th Geo. Jackson vessel – £6. In one 32th Fra. Barker pinque £12 10s.”

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To facilitate reading, the spelling and punctuation of elderly excerpts have generally been modernised, and distracting excision scars concealed. My selections, translations, and editions are copyright.

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Young writes that vessels owned and exploited in this fashion were called club ships – OED take note! – and that “almost all our all our present Greenland ships are also held in shares, but not in such small shares as 32ds and 64ths.” For a full account, see Ralph Davis’ chapter on “The shipowners” (Davis 2017).

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To facilitate reading, the spelling and punctuation of elderly excerpts have generally been modernised, and distracting excision scars concealed. My selections, translations, and editions are copyright.

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Young writes that vessels owned and exploited in this fashion were called club ships – OED take note! – and that “almost all our all our present Greenland ships are also held in shares, but not in such small shares as 32ds and 64ths.” For a full account, see Ralph Davis’ chapter on “The shipowners” (Davis 2017).

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