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 ...

While Joseph Mallard William Turner made a beautiful, atmospheric moonlit study in oils of Newcastle keels working the Tyne in 1835 (Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight, in the collection of the ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 In ...