I have recently finished reading the biography of Sir Max Horton and I was wondering where his personal papers may be found. The three Captains of the Submarine Flotillas in the Mediterranean often ...

MHN return to Hartlepool to the wonderful National Museum of the Royal Navy, Historic Ships with a conference focussing on ...

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.

Working in partnership with The Borthwick Institute for Archives (University of York, England), the tailors Henry Poole & Co ...

Throughout the Second World War, collier ships took coal to London from north-east ports. From the outset, the masters of these ships had to learn the skills of sailing in convoy with the additional ...

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 ...

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 ...

Does anyone know when HMS came into use as a prefix? And when did people start referring to the Navy as the Royal Navy? Read More ...

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) ...

Today marks the 100 th anniversary that HMS Victory was towed into her dry dock in Portsmouth, the first crucial step in saving her for future generations. Her conservation still continues with a new ...

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, ...