In the church of Weston-on-Avon there is a stained glass window with images of boats. These have identified as salt barges. The profile looks very much like a Severn trow with a straight transom and ...

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.

Image: ‘Staff Bible’ entry for Newman Mumford, 379. LRFHEC.

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, ...

The ring-finger-hook-up was also apparent in the helicopter world. In the FAA the helicopter for small ships was the Wasp. There were foldout doors around the engine gearbox unit upon which the ...

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 ...

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: ...

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Following the French Revolutionary, American and Napoleonic wars between 1793 and 1815, many smaller British warships were sold to merchant ship owners directly or to shipyards for breaking or resale.

This painting by the Flemish marine artist Andries Van Eertvelt (1590-1652) shows the Santa Maria, the flagship of Christopher Columbus at anchor in 1492. Painting more than a century after the event, ...

Scholars of Polynesian history, culture or language will welcome the Hakluyt Society’s critical edition of William Mariner’s An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean.