We published a very detailed study about the reinvention (and building process) of wooden cargo ships in Tamil Nadu (for an ancient reference to these boats, see Hawkins, Clifford W. 1965. “THE ...

Over the course of the late eighteenth century the Royal Navy, and most other navies, changed the Mizzen yard from a full lateen to a half lateen (where the sail in front of the mast was cut away but ...

I thought members might be interested in this report from the National Archives... 22 April 1574: Report by the Rye Authorities "Around March 24th, a small ship of about 40 tons called The Seigneur de ...

We are delighted to announce that the prestigious Anderson Medal for 2023 has been awarded to Professor Roger Knight for his book Convoys: The British Struggle against Napoleonic Europe and America ...

The Royal Navy in the French Revolutionary War is not a new subject. It has inspired historians from many traditions. From the patriotic and nationalistic, the conservative and the radical, the ...

In 1920, in the Cammell, Laird & Co. shipyard in Birkenhead, a ship was built that would change the shipbuilding industry and shipyards forever. ss Fullagar was the world’s first fully welded ...

This is an excellent and comprehensive account of the activities of members of the Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve, which was set up by the Admiralty in 1936. The book is not a bald ...

The ‘Golden Years’ in this book’s title almost mirrors the ‘Long Boom’ in international trade ended by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil embargo of 1973–4 which quadrupled ...

HMS Warspite was a much-loved battleship. The seventh of that name, she served with distinction in both World Wars, earning a record number of fifteen battle honours ranging from the battle of Jutland ...

I have recently finished reading the biography of Sir Max Horton and I was wondering where his personal papers may be found. The three Captains of the Submarine Flotillas in the Mediterranean often ...

This episode continues our work bringing you some of the finest original historical material, written by the people who were actually there. On Friday 7th May 1915, Kapitänleutnant Schwieger found ...

In order to understand some of the key issues of nineteenth-century maritime history, Leonardo Scavino’s study of the maritime community of Camogli in Liguria and its trajectory from a small fishing ...