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 shortage of timber for the dockyards which resulted from Lord St Vincent’s attack on the timber merchants’ cartel caused deep concern, and Nelson’s visit to Monmouth appears to have solved the ...

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, ...

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 ...

The construction of built-up guns has been conjectural until their recovery from the Mary Rose, but examples of cannon from Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands are available for study. The article ...

The few sources of information on organisation within the Roman Navy are explored. The role of the naval force is deduced to be that of an auxiliary within the military machine. The free quarterly ...

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 ...

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 ...