HMS Calliope, launched in 1884, was a Calypso-Class Corvette and became one of the most famous ships of the Royal Navy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century when she was the only vessel, of a ...

‘A correct view of the French Flat-Bottom Boats intended to convey their troops for the invasion of England, as seen afloat in Charante Bay in August 1803 – these flat bottom boats are about 120 feet ...

This episode forms part of a new strand of our podcast: Seapower Past and Present which explores seapower as it is understood and practised in the modern world whilst offering a historical perspective ...

A continuation of Admiral Ballard’s consideration of the evidence of Egyptian naval architecture to be found in the Valley of the Nile, and what it tells us about the seafarers of ancient Egypt. It is ...

I am currently researching the transmission of Iberian geographic knowledge into English cartography, specifically how Portuguese toponyms may have found their way onto the Molyneux globe of 1592. One ...

In order to understand some of the key issues of nineteenth-century maritime history, Leonardo Scavino’s study of the maritime community of Camogli in Liguria and its trajectory from a small fishing ...

Quick question. The attached drawing of the Vulture (from our local historical society archives) shows Vulture to be 3 masted. Yet I’ve seen references to Vulture being of the “Swan sloop” class.

British audiences tend to associate European-Pacific interaction with Captain Cook, but the United States have a different historical relationship with the region, one centred on aggressive ...

There is no perfect way to tell the interrelated stories of several battleships, all built in Britain but intended for customer navies involved in very different international rivalries. And only to ...

This is a figurehead of poseidon. He is likely 1700s-1800s and Greek. If anyone has any thoughts on the origins of the figurehead, please get in touch.

I needed hundreds of crew agreements when I studied my husband’s great-grandfather’s professional career as a part-owner master of a series of sailing ships in the nineteenth century. The Memorial ...

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 War to ...