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 ...

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

In 2023 renewed attention was paid by Dutch media to the silk dress and other high-quality objects retrieved from a seventeenth-century shipwreck recently found near Texel. The suggestion that the ...

Between 1611 and 1620, the duke of Osuna, viceroy of Sicily and later Naples, influenced Spanish naval policy in the Mediterranean. Transitioning from privateering focused on Ottoman trade routes, he ...

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 ...

While much work has been done on the key figures in the Woodes Rogers expedition of 1708– 11, including the principal investors who made the voyage possible, comparatively little focus has been given ...

An article on ‘The Prince Royal of Denmark’s Yacht’ published in the November 2024 issue of ‘The Mariner’s Mirror’ (*) included this photograph (on p407) of a 1786 painting by the British marine ...

Recent scholarship confirms that early-modern maritime workers were often married, and that sailors’ wives were far from passive economic subjects. They actively developed strategies to augment the ...

The Battle of the Nile of 1798 was one of the most important naval battles that has ever been fought. This episode presents an introduction explaining the context of the battle and is followed by a ...