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 ...

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Among the manuscripts at the National Maritime Museum is one of exceptional interest to the student of naval warfare. It is a journal, kept by an officer in the French flagship Bretagne, of the ...

HMS Norwich, a 28 gun frigate under Captain Heywood arrived in Jamaica in 1680 to catch pirates and interlopers. In 1682, on returning from Cartagena, she ran aground on a reef. A bower anchor was ...

In 1822, under Lord Cochrane’s audacious leadership the new Brazilian Navy swept superior Portuguese forces from the seas, forced them to abandon their stronghold of Salvador de Bahia and then, in a ...

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The author of this article travelled the country to find boats still being built. He mentions Somerset where he found the flatner still being built by local carpenters. He describes the frequent ...

One of Spain’s treasure shipments was intercepted by an Irish privateer, one of many off the waters of Britain. Letters of marque issued by the Spanish authority in Flanders allowed privateers to ...

The third in a series, this article examines the rules used by HM Customs established through Statute to calculate tonnage following 1670 Act for ‘Encouragement of the Building of Good and Defensible ...

Discusses the development of the visual signalling system known in its various forms as Semaphore, ranging from hand-held flags to tower-mounted rotating arms, using differing codes and languages at ...

During the battle of Copenhagen Nelson sent a short letter to the Danish Government asking them to cease hostilities to save the lives of Danes on ships which had surrendered. The motive for the ...

This article is a detailed study of the costs involved in building warships of the period. It is based on Progress Books One, Two and Five. Direct comparisons between the costs of different vessels ...