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 ...

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 ...

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Following the French Revolutionary, American and Napoleonic wars between 1793 and 1815, many smaller British warships were sold to merchant ship owners directly or to shipyards for breaking or resale.

A new digitization, research and conservation project has made available to the public 248 works on paper by Scottish artist, war artist and war correspondent William Simpson (1823 –99).Footnote 1 The ...

Between the wars, the British fishing industry faced an invidious economic climate. Costs rose, over-fishing and falling prices depressed incomes, and structural faults that had mattered little in the ...

This article aims to clarify the origins of the animosity that developed between Admiral Sir William Parker (1742–1802), one of the Royal Navy’s senior commanders at the battle of Cape St Vincent in ...

This aquatint showing ships of William the Conqueror is taken from a work by the nineteenth-century British artist Charles Henry Seaforth (b.1801) that was based on the Bayeux Tapestry. The tapestry ...

In the opening pages Karel Davids makes the aims of his book crystal clear. He wishes to bring global, maritime and economic histories together to provide a plug for the ‘blue hole’ currently present ...

Claude Berube, a former US naval officer and instructor at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, argues in this much-needed (and lavishly-researched) study of the late 1820s–1830s that the seventh US ...

First a cautionary note. Readers should not confuse this non-fictional account of the battle of Midway with Kevin Miller’s 2020 novel by the same title and on the same subject. Both works employ the ...