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.

In this episode we hear all about the rich and long maritime history of the English port of Hull. Dr Sam Willis spoke with Sam Wright, a tour guide of historic Hull as well as a researcher working on ...

In 1840 the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company inaugurated a mail service from England to Alexandria that was then extended onwards from Suez to Ceylon, Madras and Calcutta. The transfer ...

Throughout the eighteenth century the Royal Navy was the largest employer of free black labour in a period when Britain was – at the same time – the largest trader in human lives across the Atlantic.

is there a good source or APP for illustrating/plotting a ship’s voyage on a chart using actual Lat/Long from a ship’s log/journal?

Above: This transmitter was designed to float and to be used on British Merchant Navy lifeboats, if the mother ship had been abandoned. It utilised both batteries and a hand generator for power, and ...

Watch the 2021 Awards Ceremony, filmed at Boathouse 4 in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Find out who this year’s winners are for the National Historic Ships UK Photography Competition, Marsh Volunteer, ...

The extant record of Captain James Cook’s third Pacific voyage (1776–80) provides multiple detailed accounts, affording the opportunity to compare how the voyage’s officers portrayed themselves and ...

Ticket prices (including Conference Fee, tea/coffee and sit-down lunch) are as follows: Students (upon production of proof of full time education) , £30 Full members of the sponsoring organisations: ...

James Wilson Carmichael is an artist of great value to maritime historians because of his experience both of seafaring and shipbuilding. Born in a city with deep maritime heritage, Newcastle upon Tyne ...

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Hondius was a Flemish and Dutch cartographer particularly well known for his maps of the New World and Europe. This portrait was engraved during his residency in London from 1584, made to celebrate ...