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 ...

The ‘Golden Years’ in this book’s title almost mirrors the ‘Long Boom’ in international trade ended by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil embargo of 1973–4 which quadrupled ...

This is an excellent and comprehensive account of the activities of members of the Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve, which was set up by the Admiralty in 1936. The book is not a bald ...

HMS Warspite was a much-loved battleship. The seventh of that name, she served with distinction in both World Wars, earning a record number of fifteen battle honours ranging from the battle of Jutland ...

I will let others correct me but my understanding was that HMS came into use around 1790, I have found references to HMS Phoenix being the first use in 1789. Prior to that it was usually written “His ...

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We are sad to record the passing of John Ross, the honorary secretary of the Research and Programmes Committee on 19 December 2024. John had been an active member of the Committee and served as its ...

Building passenger ships was a primary activity of the British shipbuilding industry for a century and half. Scotland not only built the earliest and the latest ships but also contributed around half ...

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 ...

Our knowledge of the information on which the East India Company (hereafter EIC) acted upon in its early years is very limited. Existing records allow us to gain some insight into the actions of the ...

This episode links together one of the most important inventions in all of maritime technology with one of the most notorious murders in history. In 1910 Dr Hawly Crippen killed his wife Cora in their ...