Maritime History

This book looks at the activities of the Vikings in the Irish Sea, a band of water that has been important since prehistoric times in the history o...

The remarkable story of how a handful of intrepid scientific navigators underpinned British naval dominance in the conflict with Napoleon   During ...

`A spellbinding and eloquent story of tragedy, courage, and the triumph of one man determined to see that his shipmates did not die in vain. Mark B...

The 2024 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual publication featuring original research on the history, development, and service of the world's ...

During an inspection dive in 1980 along Israels Mediterranean coast off of Kibbutz Hahotrim, Shelley Wachsmann, then Inspector of Antiquities for t...

This edited volume aims to highlight every day life and the history of thought of the Hanse merchants that undertook the dangerous journey to the N...

How good that the stories of these adventurous and wonderful women who made extraordinary journeys around the world have now come to light.' Dame ...

Engagingly written, and brilliantly researched, a treasure trove packed with rich nuggets of information. I loved and devoured it. Peter JamesA pe...

ENGIn the seventeenth century, the Dutch built an Atlantic empire that stretched from the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast and from present-day ...

In April 2011, the newly created Royal Navy Response Force Task Group deployed to the Mediterranean to provide a range of military options in respo...

Models of non-European watercrafts are commonly found in museum collections in the UK and throughout the world. These objects are understudied, rar...

When Vasa was raised in 1961 a lost world was revealed in astonishing detail. Among the most remarkable finds were the remains of the rigging. Norm...

Spanning from the Caribbean to East Asia and covering almost 3,000 years of history, from Classical Antiquity to the eve of the twenty-first centur...

The wooden dhow, with its characteristic lateen sail, is an appropriate icon for the early trading world of the Indian Ocean. It was based on free ...

Maritime security covers many issues including disputes over ownership of the continental shelf and of the boundaries of Exclusive Economic Zones, ...

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