S. 8. 1. – Vessels as entities

Chair: Amândio Barros (University of Porto-CITCEM)

• Matthew Hopper (History Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo) – The last voyages of the brig Novo Abismo: A Portuguese slave ship from the mid-19th century
• Peter Solar (CEREC, Université Saint-Louis and Faculty of History, University of Oxford)/Craig Lambert (Humanities, University of Southampton)/Aidan Kane (JE Cairnes School of Business and Economics, NUI Galway) – What’s in a name? English ship names from the late thirteenth to the mid-nineteenth century
• Kenneth Morgan; Martin Ejnar Hansen (Brunel University London) – Shipping Productivity and the Eighteenth-Century British Slave Trade