In 1628 the Dutch and Spanish had already been at war, with the occasional truce, for sixty years. What initially had begun as a war for Dutch independence in northern Europe had by this stage spilled ...

A biography of James Ramsay which describes his largely ignored but key role in promoting the anti-slavery movement. He was a prolific writer, a philanthropist and a political activist as well as a ...

Today we have episode 7 of our Iconic Ships mini-series in which a curator of a historic ship makes a case for their ship being iconic, or a historian takes a ship from history but which sadly no ...

Folklore, myths and legends relating to the sea have existed for as long as humans have been travelling by sea. The alien nature of the marine environment, the almost inconceivable scale of the oceans ...

The origin of the term ‘blazer’ is explained, and traced to the brilliant scarlet uniform of the Lady Margaret Boat Club of St John’s College, Cambridge. As applied to men of war, the names Blazer, ...

Full Members of the SNR receive hard copies of the four issues of The Mariner’s Mirror that are published every year as well as the four copies of the Society’s Newsletter, Topmasts. Members of the ...

An interesting copy of a treatise on the proportions used in ship building, the result of years of experience. The sources of the information are explored. The free quarterly newsletter of the Society ...

Peter Lehr has put together an unusually inclusive account of pirates past and present, a useful volume that acquaints the reader with the basic elements of piracy across the globe and historical eras ...

Here, the author examines the trials and largely land-use of this canvass on hoops-based signalling method in 1848 and their endorsement by Philip H. Colomb in application around Portland. Despite use ...

Grahame Farr has put together the notes left by Vernon Boyle at the time of his death to provide first hand descriptions of techniques used during the 19 th century. The illustrations are by Vernon ...

The naval career of a surgeon who served on the China station, in the Pacific and as one of the expeditions searching for the Franklin ships. The free quarterly newsletter of the Society for Nautical ...

The achievements of this ‘inventive genius’ are listed, including the fact that he encouraged inventions by all in the dockyard, and rewarded them. The free quarterly newsletter of the Society for ...