John Harvey (ironfounder) explained

John Harvey was a Cornishman whose career started as a blacksmith and engineer at Carnhell Green near Hayle, in west Cornwall. In 1779 he established a foundry and engineering works at Hayle called Harvey & Co.^[1] By 1800 the company employed more than 50 people and continued to grow as Harvey worked with many of the great Cornish engineers and entrepreneurs of the day. These included Richard Trevithick, William West, and, more importantly, Arthur Woolf. In 1797, Harvey's daughter, Jane, married Richard Trevithick.

Harvey & Co. built up a reputation for world class stationary beam engines designed to pump water out of the deep Cornish tin and copper mines. The Cornish beam engine became world-famous and was exported overseas, and remains the largest type of beam engine ever constructed; the largest of all, with a 144adj=midNaNadj=mid cylinder which powered eight separate beams, was used to drain the Haarlemmermeer in the Netherlands—it is preserved in the Museum De Cruquius.^[2]

Harvey's also produced a range of products, from hand tools to ocean-going ships including the . The company was expanded by John's son, Henry, in collaboration with Arthur Woolf, who was the chief engineer. At that time it was the main mining engine foundry in the world, with an international market served through their own port at Foundry Town, Hayle.

Harvey's of Hayle reached their peak in the early- to mid-19th century and then, along with the Cornish mining industry in general, suffered a gradual and slow decline. Harvey's acquired the Cornish Copper Company in 1875. The engineering works and foundry were closed in 1903,^[3] although the company continued to trade as a general and builders merchant, eventually merging with UBM to become Harvey-UBM in 1969.

List of ships

Ship	GRT	Yard No	For	data-sort-type="date"	Date of launch
Henry Harvey				23 May 1857[4]
	589			27 February 1858[5]
	124			1860
Minros			Charles Henry Smith of Swansea	22 April 1860[6]
Penair	213			1862
Royal Bride	286			March 1863
Welsh Girl				1 August 1863
Cornish Girl	175		Porthleven United Shipping Company	April 1864[7]
Eliza Bain	300		Hitchens, Bain and Company	12 November 1864[8]
	175		Mr. Hitchens of St Agnes	24 June 1865[9]
	287			6 September 1865
	232			June 1866
	229			25 October 1866[10]
	353		Tom Mawr Company of Neath	10 June 1867[11]
Unnamed Brigantine	214		Captain H Thomas of St Ives	21 June 1867[12]
	181		William Johns of St Ives	21 May 1868[13]
Hannibal	370		Captain Hannibal Thomas	1868[14]
			South Devon Railway Company	24 July 1869[15]
	104			7 September 1869[16]
	306			27 May 1870[17]
	118		J.B. Mansfield of Teignmouth	8 September 1871[18]
	398		George Batters of London	29 March 1873[19]
	380			16 May 1874[20]
	152		West Cornwall Steam Ship Company	9 March 1875[21]
			W. Jewell of Falmouth	10 June 1875[22]
T.S.B.	289		Thomas Bolitho and Sons, Penzance	5 November 1877[23]
	289			February 1878
	110			15 April 1879[24]
	275	25		October 1880[25]
	106	29		July 1880
	306	26		January 1881
	114	32		July 1883
	103	33		August 1883
	120	36		October 1884
	148	42	Thomas Bolitho and Sons, Penzance	June 1887[26]
	340	39		22 August 1888[27]
	655	43	Whiteway and Ball or Torquay	9 August 1888[28]
	382	45	West Cornwall Steamship Company	2 February 1889[29]
	154	46		1889
	1750	47		24 October 1889[30]
	1978	48	R.B.Chellew	3 July 1890[31]
	2033	49	R.B. Chellew	12 December 1890[32]
	2660	51		6 June 1891[33]
	539	52	Welsford and Company	23 September 1891[34]
	536	53		30 November 1891
	536	54		1892
	361	55	Rogers and Bright of Liverpool	25 July 1892[35]
	423	56		20 March 1893[36]

See also

• Mining in Cornwall and Devon
• Hayle and Bristol Steam Packet Company

References

• Edmund Vale The Harveys of Hayle. Truro: D. B. Barton, 1966

External links

• Harvey's of Hayle

Notes and References

1. http://www.cornish-mining.org.uk/story/mintech.htm Cornish mining engineers
2. Web site: Cruquius monument. Cruquius Museum. 2009-08-03. Gisolf. Robert J. H.. https://web.archive.org/web/20120206222049/http://www.cruquiusmuseum.nl/englishsite/english.html. 6 February 2012. dead.
3. Web site: The Port of Hayle Porth Heyl . . 7 August 2021.
4. News: . Launch at Hayle . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 5 June 1857 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
5. News: . Hayle. Launch of a steamer . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 5 March 1858 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
6. News: . Yacht building . Exeter and Plymouth Gazette . England . 28 April 1860 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
7. News: . Ship Launch . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 29 April 1864 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
8. News: . Ship-building at Hayle . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 18 November 1864 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
9. News: . Launch at Hayle . Lake’s Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser . Cornwall . 1 July 1865 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
10. News: . Launch at Hayle . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 1 November 1866 . 10 October 2015 . . subscription .
11. News: . Launch at Hayle . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 11 June 1867 . 10 October 2015 . . subscription .
12. News: . Launch of a Brigantine at Hayle . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 27 June 1867 . 10 October 2015 . . subscription .
13. News: . Vessel Launched . Cornubian and Redruth Times . Cornwall . 22 May 1868 . 10 October 2015 . . subscription .
14. News: . Hayle . Cornubian and Redruth Times . Cornwall . 3 July 1868 . 10 October 2015 . . subscription .
15. News: . Fitting-up the Steam Paddle-Boat . Cornubian and Redruth Times . Cornwall . 6 August 1869 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
16. News: . Launch . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 11 September 1869 . 10 October 2015 . . subscription .
17. News: . Hayle. Launch . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 21 May 1870 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
18. News: . Hayle. Launch . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 9 September 1871 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
19. News: . Hayle. Ship Launch . West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser . Cornwall . 5 April 1873 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
20. News: . Hayle. Launch of a Steam Boat . West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser . Cornwall . 21 May 1874 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
21. News: . The Traffic with Scilly . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 20 March 1875 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
22. News: . Hayle. Launch of a Steamer . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 12 June 1875 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
23. News: . Launch . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 9 November 1877 . 29 November 2015 . . subscription .
24. News: . A Launch . Cornishman . Cornwall . 17 April 1879 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
25. News: . Hayle . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 29 October 1880 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
26. News: . Hayle. Launch . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 1 July 1887 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
27. News: . Launch at Hayle . Cornishman . Cornwall . 25 August 1887 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
28. News: . Hayle. Launching a new steamer . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 16 August 1888 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
29. News: . Ship Launch at Hayle . Cornishman . Cornwall . 7 February 1889 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
30. News: . Steamer Launch at Hayle . Cornishman . Cornwall . 31 October 1889 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
31. News: . Shipbuilding at Hayle. Launch of the S.S. Penwith . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 10 July 1890 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
32. News: . Launch at Hayle . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 18 December 1890 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
33. News: . The Shipbuilding Trade in Cornwall. Launch of a Steamship at Hayle . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 11 June 1891 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
34. News: . Successful launch at Hayle . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 1 October 1891 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
35. News: . A visit to the works of Messrs. Harvey and Co at Hayle . Cornishman . Cornwall . 13 October 1892 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .
36. News: . Launch of a new steamer . Royal Cornwall Gazette . Cornwall . 23 March 1893 . 25 November 2015 . . subscription .