Carsten Niebuhr was the astronomer/cartographer for the Danish expedition to Arabia in 1761–7. He established the practicality of Tobias Mayer’s lunar distance method for determining longitude, which ...

Gone the War Junks, Junks to India and the Persian Gulf. Used longitudinal and transverse bulkheads and state rooms for travelling merchants, long before Europeans, vessels today still retain ...

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Little has been written about the mundane and dangerous tasks carried out by privateers, particularly those of the Channel Islands. Evidence of the Dobree-Carey Partnership and Accounts has recently ...

Steam powered vessels were first introduced into the Domestic Packet Service by the Post Office in 1821. By the time it was taken over by the Admiralty in 1837, the Service had 26 vessels and was one ...

In this article, the author goes into great detail researching the guns of the Spanish Armada of 1588, and reappraised the conclusions reached in The Spanish Armada, by Michael Lewis. In some ways, ...

This article concentrates on the contribution of Sir John Knox Laughton to the nineteenth century entries for the navy in the Dictionary of National Biography. A pioneer of naval history, he insisted ...

In the Revolutionary War the American rebels relied on supplies of munitions, especially gunpowder, from Europe. To circumvent the embargo and avoid seizure by the British, many of those supplies were ...

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 ...

Sailortowns were the districts of merchant and naval ports where sailors visited, often lived and were entertained. It was a distinct area characterized by its public houses, brothels and low ...

The significance of Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer’s De Spieghel der Zeevaerdt of 1584-5 is explained, and the English edition of 1588 ia described (familiar to readers of The Mariner’s Mirror) The free ...

A naval cause celebre, the dispute between Augustus Keppel and Sir Hugh Palliser after the inconclusive battle of Ushant in 1778 led to the courts martial (and acquittals) of both admirals. The causes ...