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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

On page 192 of Volume 1, Issue 7 there is mention of the Museum at Portsmouth Dockyard. Owen points out that such a museum also existed at Chatham Dockyard but was less well known. The free quarterly ...

ntarctica is a bleak and desolate continent, and the surrounding ocean is equally hostile. Those who first explored and charted it in the early nineteenth century were risking their lives for little ...

In a previous article by G Callender a ship carved on a church bench-end had been dated to the reign of Henry VII. The author discusses the style of carving and the features of the ship and suggests ...