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 ...

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 ...

I am currently a first year PhD candidate at the University of Leeds, and my PhD project is a study of the 1744 invasion attempt of Britain by France. In the course of my research I came across the ...

Thanks for sending the photos Nicholas, hopefully now someone can offer some advice.

This aquatint showing ships of William the Conqueror is taken from a work by the nineteenth-century British artist Charles Henry Seaforth (b.1801) that was based on the Bayeux Tapestry. The tapestry ...

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Researchers of histories of nautical education institutions can be found on the corner of Niche Street and Derelict Avenue. At the turn of the millennium, Kennerley lamented the paucity of published ...

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?

Whilst clearing the effects of a deceased relative, I came across a few ships in bottles and, unfortunately, have no knowledge of such things.One is of HM Frigate Ariel, the other , a much smaller ...

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.