![]() ![]() ![]() There are five main categories of names in the data I've studied: Names of Saints and Religious References This makes it easy to recommend patterns of ship names to follow when choosing a good medieval name for your merchant ship, regardless of when or where it was from. What is interesting is that despite a range of over two centuries and four countries, the names of the ships are remarkably homogeneous. While most of the ships that came into these ports were English, there were also a number of ships from ports in France, the Netherlands, and Germany listed in the records, with French ships showing up more frequently in the Exeter and Cornwall data, and the Dutch and German ships occurring primarily in the Newcastle-upon-Tyne data. The data I'm working from comes from three sources: Customs accounts from the port of Exeter 1266-1321 (1), port records from Cornwall 1337-56 (2), and customs accounts from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1454-1500 (3). At the moment, the only good article on ships names that is available online is Maridonna Benvenuti's "Ship Names from 1480-01", though at the moment I know of at least one other herald who is working on putting together an in-depth article on 16th- and early 17th-century English ship names. I recently started researching names of ships because ships are one of the models upon which a household name can be constructed. Known in the SCA as Aryanhwy merch Catmael © 2005 Sara L. ![]() Merchant Ship Names in the 13th-15th centuries Merchant Ship Names in the 13th-15th centuries by Sara L. ![]()
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