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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I wonder if anyone has drawings/details of the coke powered Brown Caloric engine? There were two fitted to LV50 in 1879, purchased from New York to provide compressed air for the siren fog horns.

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 ...

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 ...