I've come across a reference in 1654 to a ship built by John Cole shipwright of Ipswich "named the Adventure of Ipswich, of the burthen of three hundred tonns or thereabouts, wherein one (blank) ...

Throughout the Second World War, collier ships took coal to London from north-east ports. From the outset, the masters of these ships had to learn the skills of sailing in convoy with the additional ...

Our knowledge of the information on which the East India Company (hereafter EIC) acted upon in its early years is very limited. Existing records allow us to gain some insight into the actions of the ...

The younger daughter of the military engineer General Robert Morse spent three family holidays touring parts of England, including the south coast where they visited dockyards and saw various aspects ...

I've just listened to this podcast and enjoyed it very much. But I would quibble with one small point that probably wouldn't matter to most of your listeners, but is relevant to the story of sea songs ...

Between 1611 and 1620, the duke of Osuna, viceroy of Sicily and later Naples, influenced Spanish naval policy in the Mediterranean. Transitioning from privateering focused on Ottoman trade routes, he ...

In 2023 renewed attention was paid by Dutch media to the silk dress and other high-quality objects retrieved from a seventeenth-century shipwreck recently found near Texel. The suggestion that the ...

While much work has been done on the key figures in the Woodes Rogers expedition of 1708– 11, including the principal investors who made the voyage possible, comparatively little focus has been given ...

Recent scholarship confirms that early-modern maritime workers were often married, and that sailors’ wives were far from passive economic subjects. They actively developed strategies to augment the ...

An article on ‘The Prince Royal of Denmark’s Yacht’ published in the November 2024 issue of ‘The Mariner’s Mirror’ (*) included this photograph (on p407) of a 1786 painting by the British marine ...