Dr Barton has already provided me with some very helpful information and comments but I haven’t been able to arrive at a definitive where or when this token was issued. Following his advice to ...

Would it be usual for the commissioning ceremony of a Royal Navy warship to be recorded in the ship’s log? I am researching the history of HMS Totem (later the ill-fated Israeli submarine Dakar), and ...

No further regulations were issued after 1641 regarding the vending of clothes on his Majesty’s ships but Perrin reproduces two lists of 1656 and 1663, showing purchase prices and clothes returned ...

Leanna T. P. Brinkley’s Coastal Trade and Maritime Communities in Elizabethan England is a contribution to the study of early modern English trade, local and regional business networks, as well as the ...

Joshua Savala’s book presents itself as both a pioneering and ambitious work. Beyond Patriotic Phobias promises to offer a fresh maritime perspective on the two major states of the American South ...

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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 ...

A study of the crew lists of ships registered at Bristol has revealed much interesting information about the age groups of the seamen carried in these ships, their trades, nationalities and the ...

The translation of the original document details the expenses incurred in maintaining the King’s vessels at different points around the South Coast. Not only are new-builds and repairs to existing ...

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 ...