Harald Pins from Maine has got in touch with an interesting new source on the Alice A. Leigh which we have covered in both pod and video. ‘Having listened to the Mariner’s Mirror podcast featuring the ...

The Order of St John was founded in the eleventh century in Jerusalem as a religious and military order dedicated to caring for sick and poor pilgrims in the Holy Land. How they ended up over 1000 ...

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The interconnections between the two establishments are explored, and the names of naval officers who have attended the College are listed. The free quarterly newsletter of the Society for Nautical ...

A lovely exchange of letters between Admiral Rodney and the storekeeper in Portsmouth, resulting in the provision of green baize cloth for his cabin’s floor. The free quarterly newsletter of the ...

The free quarterly newsletter of the Society for Nautical Research keeping you up to date with all society news, short research articles, headlines from the world of maritime research and heritage, ...

The free quarterly newsletter of the Society for Nautical Research keeping you up to date with all society news, short research articles, headlines from the world of maritime research and heritage, ...

The second section of Captain Keats’ (the first part being found in MM Vol. 7, Issue 10) orders to the officers and crew of the Superb run from paragraph 23 to 88 and lay down the rules and ...

The article traces the history of the dogger from its importation from Holland in the Middle Ages. Used for fishing voyages to Iceland, these substantial and seaworthy vessels contributed to the ...

This coloured lithograph shows the attack at Fatshan Creek in 1857. This battle was fought during the Second Opium War. The First Opium War, fought in the 1840s, had ended with treaties designed to ...

First World War stories usually concern the vast destructions wrought by conflict – the loss of life, the ruination of landscape, and the crushing of hope. We tend to forget that the other major ...

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