Various press cuttings about west country Atlantic trading vessels.

Various press cuttings about west country Atlantic trading vessels. Includes articles on: the decline of sailing vessels, with mention of the WATERWITCH; west country schooners which traded to Newfoundland, with mention of the Stephens fleet of 'Little Ships'; the death of Captain Henry House (father of Tom Stephen’s wife); the LITTLE GEM setting a speed record of 31 days for a round trip from Newfoundland to Oporto via Figuiera in 1896; an English seaman, Captain May, who was taken as a prisoner-of-war in 1914 when his schooner, the FRAU MINNA PETERSEN, was captured by a German torpedo boat (the schooner would eventually be acquired by Edward Stephens and renamed JANE BANKS).