Abstract. Coloured or ornamented sails have always been exceptional. Early examples from Egypt, Greece and Rome are described. During the mediaeval period from the Vikings onwards coloured sails and ...

Abstract. Miguel Martins, University of Lisbon Augusto Salgado, University of Lisbon and Portuguese Navy Research Centre José Bettencourt, nova lisbon University Jorge Freire, nova lisbon University ...

Abstract. This article is a very comprehensive description of the workings of privateering in the period reviewed. There are detailed tables in it, enumerating the total of Letters of Marque issued, ...

Today we have episode 7 of our Iconic Ships mini-series in which a curator of a historic ship makes a case for their ship being iconic, or a historian takes a ship from history but which sadly no ...

Dr Sam Willis explores the many wounds that Nelson received in his life, as well as his fatal wound received at the Battle of Trafalgar. Sam speaks with Michael Crumplin, a retired consultant general ...

This Autumn we make our first visit to Fleetwood, centre of the North West Fishing Industry. Following on from our Spring Conference in Hull (but standing on its own merits) we look at the ...

Dr Sam Willis speaks with John Huth, the Donner Professor of Science at Harvard who works mainly in the field of experimental particle physics.He is in fact a member of the international team that ...

The British submarine HMS Poseidon sank off the Chinese coast during normal exercises in 1931 having struck a freighter. Just over half of her crew made it out of the hatches as she sank. Twenty-six ...

In 1628 the Dutch and Spanish had already been at war, with the occasional truce, for sixty years. What initially had begun as a war for Dutch independence in northern Europe had by this stage spilled ...

Abstract. In 1939 Norway, then a country of 3 million people, had the world’s fourth-largest fleet of merchant ships, over 1,000 of which they put at the disposal of the Allies during the Second World ...

This year commemorates the 110th anniversary of the Titanic disaster. Here are our top 10 facts about the Titanic to go with our newly-produced video animating a 3D model of the ship built with the ...

Great news that the sunken wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s HMS Endurance has at long last been discovered deep in South Antarctica’s Weddell Sea where she has lain for 107 years, and in what an amazing ...