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Amgueddfa - Museum

Nefyn


Cychod Achub -
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Pwllheli


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Shipwrecks

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LLinell amser forwrol Llŷn - Llŷn maritime timeline

1760 - 1799

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1840 - 1859

1860 -1879

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1900 - 1919

1920 - 1951


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Adran Forwrol - Maritime Section

TREFTADAETH FORWROL

Can mlynedd yn ôl 'roedd porthladdoedd bychain Gwynedd yn orlawn gyda llongau hwyliau a adeiladwyd yn lleol, llongau'n hwylio'r glannau ac yn hwylio ar led. Ym mhentrefi megis Moelfre a Niwbwrch, Nefyn a Chriccieth, 'roedd bron pob bwthyn yn aelwyd i genedlaethau o forwyr; 'roedd Amlwch a Phorthmadog, Bermo a Phwllheli, a phorthladdoedd llechi'r Fenai, Porthladd y Penrhyn,Y Felinheli a Chaernarfon yn debyg iawn i gymunedau morwrol Scandinafia a Gogledd America.

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Cafodd y sgwneriaid tri mast prydferth, a ddaeth o iardiau Porthmadog, iotiau Môr yr lwerydd fel eu gelwid, enw da iawn yn y fasnach lechi i borthlaeldoedd yr Elbe a Scandinafia a masnach bysgod Newfoundland a Labrador, ac hefyd am gludo cerrig ffosffad, coed a phob math o Iwythi o Dde America, Y Caribi, a Môr y, Canoldir a Chulfor y Ffindir. A'r un modd 'roedd enw ardderchog I longau haearn Amlwch, o Rio Grande do Sul a Porto Alegr, i Hamburg, aTwrku, ac o Peiotas i Fredrikstad. Y cysylltiad a'r Iwerddon a'r fferi a fu'n gyfrifol am dwf llongau a thraddodiad morwrol Caergybi; mae straeon dewder y Tara a'r Scotia mewn dau ryfel byd yn enghreifftiau o'r cyfoeth o hanes sy'n perthyn i 'Longau'r Dre'.

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Y barc Ordovic, 875 tunnell, oedd y llong goed fwyaf a adeiladwyd yn lleol, yn y Felinheli yn 1878; ond bu llawer iawn o longau mawr coed enwog iawn o arfordir dwyreiniol Canada a'r Unol Daleithiau, ddaeth i ddwylo perchnogion a rheolwyr o Wynedd yn y ganrif ddiwethaf. A dyna gip olwg yn unig ar etifeddiaeth sy'n ymestyn o ddyddiau'r Seintiau Celtaidd a Gwyr Llychlyn, a chestyll Edward I wedi sefydlu yn agos i'r mor, a dyddiau'r môr-Iadron a'r smyglwyr ar arfordir lle bu llu o longddrylliadau enwog a llawer enghraifft o ddewder anhygoel dynion y badau achub. Dymuna amgueddfeydd y mor yng Ngwynedd eich gwahodd i ymweld a hwy i ailddarganfod etifeddiaeth forwrol Gwynedd.

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AMGUEDDFA HANESYDDOL A MORWROL LLŷN, NEFYN

Hen Eglwys y Santes Fair, Stryd y llan, Nefyn.

Closed for redevelopment

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Cawn ffotograffau, darluniau ac arteffactau yn dangos y cysylltiad agos fu rhwng yr ardal a'r môr - adeiladu llongau a llongau mawr yn hwylio'r byd gyda chriw a swyddogion o Nefyn - yn ogystal a bywyd dyddiol ar droad y l9fed ganrif.

 

MARITIME HERITAGE

A hundred years ago the small ports of Gwynedd were crammed with working sailing ships, hundreds of them owned and bullt locally, engaged both in coastal and oceanic trades. In villages like Moelfre.and Newborough, Nefyn and Criccieth, almost every cottage bred generations of seamen. Amlwch and Porthmadog, Barmouth and Pwllheli and the slate ports of the Menai Straits, Porth Penrhyn, Port Dinorwic and Caernarfon, all had much in common with similar maritime communities in Scandinavia and North America.

The beautiful three masted schooners which came from the shipyards of Porthmadog, known to contemporaries as the Western Ocean Yachts, gained an enviable reputation in the slate trade to the Elbe ports and Scandinavia, in the salt fish trade of Newfoundland and Labrador as well as carrying phosphate rock, timber and general cargoes which took them to ports from South America, the Carribean, the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Finland.

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Similarly the fine iron barquentines and schooners of Amlwch were known from Rio Grande do Sul and Porto Alegre to Hamburg and Twrku Peloras to Fredrickstad. At Holyhead it was the vital ferry to Ireland which created the demand for ships and seamen, and the heroic stories of the Tara and Scotia in two world wars are but examples out of the wealth of material in the story of this once busy port.

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The largest vessel to come from local shipyards was the wood barque Ordovic, 875 t, at Port Dinorwic in 1878, but many large wooden sailing ships built in the Canadian Maritimes and the United States were owned and managed in Gwynedd in the last century. And this is only a brief glimpse of a maritime heritage extending from the days of the early Celtic saints and the vikings, the castles of Edward I strategically placed to make the most of the seapower, and the days of pirates and smugglers on a coast which has more than its share of tragic wrecks' and outstanding rescues by brave lifeboat crews. The maritime museums of Gwynedd invite you to share with them the rediscovering of the maritine heritage of Gwynedd.

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LLEYN HISTORICAL & MARITIME MUSEUM, NEFYN

Old St Mary's Church, Church Street, Nefyn.

Closed for redevelopment

The Museum is housed in the Old Church on the site of a 6th century Celtic church. There is a weather vane shaped as a full rigged ship on the tower.

Through painting, photographs and artefacts is shown the local maritime history including ship building, coasting vessels, herring industry and also everyday life at the turn of the 19th century.

 

Rhif Elusen . Charity No. 514365

 

 

 


 
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