Gabriel Bray embarked as a lieutenant for the voyage of HMS Pallas to the West coast of Africa and Jamaica in 1774-1775. He left behind an album of seventy-five drawings of that cruise, which ...

This episode looks at the extraordinary maritime history of Scarborough, a port town on the UK’s northeastern coast. Famed for its medieval herring fair that features in Simon and Garfunkel’s 1960s ...

The earliest map of London that has come down to our time is Wyngaerde’s panorama, dating from between 1543 and 1550. It provides a bird’s-eye view of the whole city, together with Westminster and ...

Dating back to the late 13th century this wreck lies in 26m of water some 110nm North of Jakarta and 40nm off the Sumatran coast. She displaced around 300 tonnes. Earlier looting had taken place prior ...

A detailed and technical article on the development of ships in the Renaissance period. The author gives examples of sail development, build development ...

Sources relating to developments in Japanese ship building and maritime practices are sparse before 1600, although evidence does exist in the form of archaeological artefacts, artistic representations ...

A detailed description of the structure and method of operation of the Canadian Naval Control of Shipping (NCS) prior to and during WW2. NCS was responsible for the organization, planning and routing ...

Little has been written about the mundane and dangerous tasks carried out by privateers, particularly those of the Channel Islands. Evidence of the Dobree-Carey Partnership and Accounts has recently ...

Although ship design and construction did not change and Charles 1st’s Sovereign of the Seas would not have been out of place at Trafalgar, the seventeenth century marked a major transition in naval ...

The preamble to the 1866 Naval Discipline Act, which incorporates the Articles of War reads: “The Navy whereon, under the good Providence of God, the wealth, safety, and strength of the Kingdom ...

The construction of built-up guns has been conjectural until their recovery from the Mary Rose, but examples of cannon from Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands are available for study. The article ...

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