Examines the transformation of England’s naval administrative and fiscal system from 1649 to 1651 and the impact of this transformation on the operational success of the navy during the English ...

A detailed history of the Royal Dockyard at Portsmouth which included the first gated “dry” dock in England, intended to handle the largest ships of the day and meant to supersede the “wet’ docks then ...

When gasometer foundations were being constructed in 1886, an enormous pre-Roman logboat was discovered in the silt of the Ancholme river; in ancient times a wide estuarine valley. After litigation, ...

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 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, ...

Having recaptured Guadeloupe from the British in 1794, Victor Hugues became the island’s all powerful governor; developing his colonies privateers into his chief weapon and mounting an extensive ...

These pilot boats had a distinctive rig; they were two-masted schooners with a rake to the mainmast. The sails were laced to the masts. In design, they derived from the shallop, and were well suited ...

Robert Southey wrote his Life of Nelson in 1813 and this biography is responsible largely for the concept today of Nelson as the quintessential heroic figure. Southey harshly criticised Nelson for his ...

Rear-Admiral Sir Patrick Macnamara, who died in April 1957, joined the Britannia Naval College in 1901 and went to sea in 1902. Having qualified in gunnery in 1910 he was appointed gunnery officer of ...

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, ...