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 ...

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 ...

The Solebay Tapestries: Threads of History is the first in a new series of short publications which introduce and contextualize objects within the collection of Het Scheepvaartmuseum, the national ...

In an impressive, readable study John Harris explains how the United States slave trade expanded in the decade before the Civil War and ended abruptly. Though Congress banned the traffic in 1808 and ...

Thanks for sending the photos Nicholas, hopefully now someone can offer some advice.

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 ...

Adam Grimshaw’s book examines Anglo-Swedish commercial and diplomatic relations in the seventeenth century. It is the first comprehensive investigation of this mutual economic and political ...

The other use of gavels in the RN, is they are used by the Mess President at formal dinners. So, they could easily be given to a guest at a final dinner. I have one from such an origin. But this is ...

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 ...

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.

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I’d be interested to know a bit more about this ...