The Society of Model Shipwrights is celebrating its 50th Anniversary at the Royal Maritime Club in Portsmouth, with an exhibition of ship models made by members over the years. The exhibition will be ...

‘A correct view of the French Flat-Bottom Boats intended to convey their troops for the invasion of England, as seen afloat in Charante Bay in August 1803 – these flat bottom boats are about 120 feet ...

Ships have many roles. They can be places of longing or delivery vehicles, warmongers or escape helpers, environmental disruptors or repositories of knowledge. One thing is certain: without ships, our ...

In the church of Weston-on-Avon there is a stained glass window with images of boats. These have identified as salt barges. The profile looks very much like a Severn trow with a straight transom and ...

I’m doing a presentation for the National Button Society of America and in the process have gone down a rabbit hole in which I’m trying to establish whether the silver sleeve buttons with a Tudor Rose ...

Next week the Society for Nautical Research launches its winter lecture series for this academic year. These online lectures will highlight new and ongoing research being undertaken by members of the ...

SS Emerald was sailing in company with a number of ships on the night of 31st Jan 1944 off Beachy Head when a flotilla of e-boats attacked sinking several vessels including Emerald (806 tons) and the ...

I needed hundreds of crew agreements when I studied my husband’s great-grandfather’s professional career as a part-owner master of a series of sailing ships in the nineteenth century. The Memorial ...

I am looking into the activities of the Russian Baltic Fleet while it was based at Chatham for about 18 months in 1812-14 during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. The fleet of 18 ships of the line and ...

The Clyde puffer has won the hearts and minds of many, especially Scots, many of whom are familiar with the stories of Neil Munro, and the television films based on a reincarnation of Para Handy and ...

Does anyone have information on how the second hand market in smaller sailing vessels operated in the period c1850-1930? I guess that brokers played a part but how did potential buyers and sellers get ...

Terence Grocott’s “Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras” (Chatham, 1997) is invaluable. It’s not searchable by location but once you have your wreck it will provide the details from one ...