The Dover Packet

Dover's newspaper, published with an Advertiser; it carries coastal news and engravings and, with the Maidstone Register, makes the small public fame by which Kent knows people.

Named with it

• Lady Mayor Eleanor Marsh · contributor
• Harbourmaster Elias John Crowe · contributor

Ties

• counterpart of the Maidstone Register

At the table

Dover's paper favours pilots, masters, salvors and quaymen; its engravings made Port-Reeve Marr recognisable in Maidstone. Quay singers often get a wreck's story out before the Packet does. Readers treat it as one witness among several.