309 Merchant Ships of the Eighteenth Century

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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By the eighteenth century, the Atlantic Ocean had become a busy highway of ships crisscrossing its waters. What do we know about the ships that made these transatlantic voyages and connected the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world through trade, people, and information? Phillip Reid, a historian of the Atlantic World and maritime technology and author of The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, joins us to explore the eighteenth-century British merchant ship and the business of transatlantic shipping. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/309 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 008: Gregory O’Malley, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807 🎧 Episode 012: Dane Morrison, The South Seas & the Discovery of American Identity 🎧 Episode 015: Joyce Chaplin, Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit 🎧 Episode 099: Mark Hanna, Pirates & Pirate Nests in the British Atlantic World 🎧 Episode 140: Tamara Thornton, Nathaniel Bowditch: 19th-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener Community LISTEN 🎧 🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ben Franklin's world is a production of the Omaha
0:03.4	Institute.
0:04.4	Hello and welcome to episode. Hello and welcome to episode 309 of Ben Franklin's world.
0:18.0	The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our
0:22.4	early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.
0:26.0	And I'm your host, Liz Kovart.
0:29.0	The history of North America is a history of connection.
0:32.0	Connection between peoples and
0:33.7	cultures, places and regions, and by the 17th century, international
0:38.4	connections between different nations and empires through the goods, news, and
0:42.2	people send across the Atlantic Ocean.
0:45.0	By the 18th century, the Atlantic Ocean became a busy highway of sorts, full of ships
0:49.7	crisscrossing its waters.
0:52.0	What do we know about the ships that made these transatlantic
0:54.7	voyages? It made the world of 18th century international connection possible.
0:59.2	Philip Reed, a historian who specializes in maritime history, joins us to explore the 18th century
1:06.0	British merchant ship and how its seafaring technology allowed the British Atlantic world to stay
1:11.2	connected.
1:12.2	Now during our investigation, Philip reveals details about the 18th century British merchant ship and its technological development.
1:21.0	Information about shipbuilding and what shipers look for when purchasing a merchant ship.
1:27.0	And how and why ship owners undertook the important work of ship maintenance and mitigating the
1:31.7	financial risks involved with transatlantic shipping and
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