In this episode, we explore the magic behind the Aubrey–Maturin novels—often hailed as the greatest naval fiction series ever written—and uncover what makes Patrick O’Brian’s storytelling so enduring, ...

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 ...

The author provides evidence of the use of the Semaphore Telegraph by the French in the early stages of the French Revolution (see MM Volume 1, Issue 9). The free quarterly newsletter of the Society ...

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, ...

Shows how the dilemmas faced by Christian travellers taking passage with excommunicate seafarers gave rise to the legal principle of the inviolability of contracts. Andrea traces the roots of the ...

I’m currently working on a long-term research and documentation project that has grown into a forthcoming book on the structure of the Cutty Sark — now under contract with a major publisher. Over 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 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 short note points out that in 1826 the Admiralty ordered that, by direction of the King, in future a Jack with white border would be used worldwide as a pilot flag and the Union Jack would no ...

The interconnections between the two establishments are explored, and the names of naval officers who have attended the College are listed. The free quarterly newsletter of the Society for Nautical ...