In the church of Weston-on-Avon there is a stained glass window with images of boats. These have identified as salt barges. The profile looks very much like a Severn trow with a straight transom and ...

Restoration of the tea clipper Cutty Sark, in dry dock at Greenwich, London, has raised many questions about the “Star of India” ornamentation which she carries on her stern. Numerous images exist of ...

The Mariner’s Mirror is the international journal of the Society for Nautical Research. It has been published since 1911 and is recognized as the world’s leading journal of naval and maritime history.

is there a good source or APP for illustrating/plotting a ship’s voyage on a chart using actual Lat/Long from a ship’s log/journal?

We may think of globalism as a recent development but its origins date back to the fifteenth century and beyond, when seafarers pioneered routes across the oceans with the objectives of exploration, ...

The Solebay Tapestries: Threads of History is the first in a new series of short publications which introduce and contextualize objects within the collection of Het Scheepvaartmuseum, the national ...

Above: This transmitter was designed to float and to be used on British Merchant Navy lifeboats, if the mother ship had been abandoned. It utilised both batteries and a hand generator for power, and ...

In the opening pages Karel Davids makes the aims of his book crystal clear. He wishes to bring global, maritime and economic histories together to provide a plug for the ‘blue hole’ currently present ...

In this episode we hear all about the rich and long maritime history of the English port of Hull. Dr Sam Willis spoke with Sam Wright, a tour guide of historic Hull as well as a researcher working on ...

Ticket prices (including Conference Fee, tea/coffee and sit-down lunch) are as follows: Students (upon production of proof of full time education) , £30 Full members of the sponsoring organisations: ...

How can the past inform our responses to contemporary maritime challenges? The first decades of the nineteenth century saw enormous technological change in the maritime industry, with the development ...

This painting of the Battle of the Texel (1673) was made by Willem van Der Velde the Younger, an extremely gifted painter of maritime scenes (1633-1707) and the son of Willem Van Der Velde (1610-1693) ...