Although ship design and construction did not change and Charles 1st’s Sovereign of the Seas would not have been out of place at Trafalgar, the seventeenth century marked a major transition in naval ...

In 1628 the Dutch and Spanish had already been at war, with the occasional truce, for sixty years. What initially had begun as a war for Dutch independence in northern Europe had by this stage spilled ...

In 1688 Prince William of Orange and his wife, Mary (James’ daughter) invaded England and seized the crown. England became protestant. The Battle of La Hogue in 1692 was the result of the French ...

King Canute (Cnut) arrived off Sandwich in 1015 AD and sailed his fleet to the mouth of the Frome from where he began to raid the coasts of Dorset and Somerset and moved inland with Viking warriors to ...

Great news that the sunken wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s HMS Endurance has at long last been discovered deep in South Antarctica’s Weddell Sea where she has lain for 107 years, and in what an amazing ...

‘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 ...

Throughout the Second World War, collier ships took coal to London from north-east ports. From the outset, the masters of these ships had to learn the skills of sailing in convoy with the additional ...

This print of a fifteenth-century merchant ship was taken from a line engraving c.1470, the only known impression of which is held in the British Museum. She is shown with a large square sail set on ...

This coloured lithograph shows the attack at Fatshan Creek in 1857. This battle was fought during the Second Opium War. The First Opium War, fought in the 1840s, had ended with treaties designed to ...

I currently have a 12-pound cannonball mounted on oak stand, crafted from the original timbers of HMS Victory, created as part of the “Save the Victory” campaign in 1922, with inscription: “Sold in ...

Please note that we will exploring this topic in a series on maritime myths and legends in the Mariner’s Mirror Podcast. Enjoy! Dr Sam Willis, Editor. The most striking evidence for the Danish Viking ...

Over the years I have raised this topic on a couple of occasions and whilst I can find my originals and some kind responses somehow the system is not allowing me to add some recent findings and raise ...