The Navy Records Society published Naval Songs and Ballads in 1908 and it is their most popular volume! I’m launching a project to get audio recordings of every song in the book. The slight catch is ...

This image is a formal costume plate depicting Royal Navy officers’ uniforms, probably from the early to mid-nineteenth century, when naval dress was becoming increasingly standardised. Three officers ...

Maritime security is almost certainly a non-sequitur. Is it even remotely possible to achieve such security at sea? This seminar will not stray into the naval geostrategic domain which often dominates ...

Hello – I have volunteered to rebuild the control electronics for a model of the Chatley Heath semaphore tower which was built as part of a chain from London to Portsmouth using a mast and paddles ...

My main interest is in the grey navy but I came across these thick beams at a friend’s house in Hampshire recently, built around 1450. It is believed they are timbers from a sailing ship broken up, ...

Crimean War’s Sea of Azov campaign saw British gunboats disrupt Russia, shaping naval strategy and leading to the HMS Captain disaster. The popular memory of Crimean War is a story of siege and ...

Dr Barton has already provided me with some very helpful information and comments but I haven’t been able to arrive at a definitive where or when this token was issued. Following his advice to ...

Would it be usual for the commissioning ceremony of a Royal Navy warship to be recorded in the ship’s log? I am researching the history of HMS Totem (later the ill-fated Israeli submarine Dakar), and ...

Leanna T. P. Brinkley’s Coastal Trade and Maritime Communities in Elizabethan England is a contribution to the study of early modern English trade, local and regional business networks, as well as the ...

Hello! I have been researching my great great grandfather’s career as a Merchant Mariner. I’m far from done as I’d like to collect as many crew Lists as I can, but I have used newspapers to track his ...

Harald Pins from Maine has got in touch with an interesting new source on the Alice A. Leigh which we have covered in both pod and video. ‘Having listened to the Mariner’s Mirror podcast featuring the ...

The translation of the original document details the expenses incurred in maintaining the King’s vessels at different points around the South Coast. Not only are new-builds and repairs to existing ...