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 ...

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 ...

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.

I've come across a reference in 1654 to a ship built by John Cole shipwright of Ipswich "named the Adventure of Ipswich, of the burthen of three hundred tonns or thereabouts, wherein one (blank) ...

The Research and Programmes Committee’s function is to lead encouragement of nautical research and education. Grant Funding for Research Projects 2021-2022. One of the main elements of the SNR ...

I've just listened to this podcast and enjoyed it very much. But I would quibble with one small point that probably wouldn't matter to most of your listeners, but is relevant to the story of sea songs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...