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.

From the Society for Nautical Research in partnership with Lloyd’s Register foundation, I’m Sam Willis. And this is the mariners mirror podcast, the world’s number one podcast dedicated to all of ...

We may think of globalism as a recent development but its origins date back to the fifteenth century and beyond, when seafarers pioneered routes across the oceans with the objectives of exploration, ...

In an impressive, readable study John Harris explains how the United States slave trade expanded in the decade before the Civil War and ended abruptly. Though Congress banned the traffic in 1808 and ...

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?

Above: This transmitter was designed to float and to be used on British Merchant Navy lifeboats, if the mother ship had been abandoned. It utilised both batteries and a hand generator for power, and ...

Each year the Society holds its AGM on board HMS Victory with a dinner held on the Lower Gundeck. Tickets for this year’s celebration are now available for Members to purchase in the Member’s Section ...

Ticket prices (including Conference Fee, tea/coffee and sit-down lunch) are as follows: Students (upon production of proof of full time education) , £30 Full members of the sponsoring organisations: ...

The extant record of Captain James Cook’s third Pacific voyage (1776–80) provides multiple detailed accounts, affording the opportunity to compare how the voyage’s officers portrayed themselves and ...

We are delighted to announce that the prestigious Anderson Medal for 2023 has been awarded to Professor Roger Knight for his book Convoys: The British Struggle against Napoleonic Europe and America ...

Adam Grimshaw’s book examines Anglo-Swedish commercial and diplomatic relations in the seventeenth century. It is the first comprehensive investigation of this mutual economic and political ...

This painting of the Battle of the Texel (1673) was made by Willem van Der Velde the Younger, an extremely gifted painter of maritime scenes (1633-1707) and the son of Willem Van Der Velde (1610-1693) ...