Concertina on Board Ships

[Aaron101]

Can anyone tell me about the history of concertina on ships? 

 

When was it first used (if that's known)?  When did it become common? 

 

Maybe even: what types and in what cultures? 

 

Thanks!

[Ken_Coles]

Welcome! You need to read Dan Worrall's book! It includes a whole chapter on this question. Someone here will know where you can get it.

 

Ken

[oldchief]

    Heres a link to one discussion here...

    General consensus seems to be they weren't all that popular.

    Stan Hugill has written they were not seen and he was there.

    I'll have to admit to carrying my Jefferies anglo on the bulker I sailed on for years,  many times around the world taking surplus US surplus grain to an assortment of third world countries.

   I don't think I was the only one to do this.

   Walt Disney may have contributed to the sea-going concertina popularity.

   I would chase down the Dan Worrall book if I were you.

   Have fun.

[David Barnert]

The Anglo-German Concertina: A Social History
by Dan M Worrall

 

Volume 1: https://www.amazon.com/Anglo-German-Concertina-Social-History/dp/0982599609

 

Volume 2: https://www.amazon.com/Anglo-German-Concertina-Social-History/dp/0982599617

 

I believe the seafaring content is in volume 1, but don’t hold me to it.

[Stephen Chambers]

Dan Worrall's paper The Concertina at Sea: A History of a Nautical Icon can be viewed and/or downloaded here: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/3988437/the-concertina-at-sea-the-anglo-german-concertina

 

[sadbrewer]

A ship mutiny in 1860.

 

[sadbrewer]

Royal Navy manouvres 1888

 

 

[sadbrewer]

From 1898

 

[sadbrewer]

Another mutiny...1905

 

[sadbrewer]

Landing in The West Indies 1896.

 

[Aaron101]

On 6/13/2022 at 4:54 PM, Stephen Chambers said:

Dan Worrall's paper The Concertina at Sea: A History of a Nautical Icon can be viewed and/or downloaded here: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/3988437/the-concertina-at-sea-the-anglo-german-concertina

 

Thank you so much!  This information is quite thorough and well researched. 

 

Aaron.