Maritime History

The history of Asia can be told through its great port cities: Guangzhou (Canton), Shanghai, Nagasaki, Basra, Aden, Jeddah, Kolkata (Calcutta), Mum...

The story of the sixteenth-centurys epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and th...

This book shows how pirates were portrayed in their own time, in trial reports, popular prints, novels, legal documents, sermons, ballads and newsp...

Most books gloss over submarines at Midway and, if they are mentioned at all, conclude they failed miserably and had little impact on the outcome o...

Derek Wright learnt about small boats from his father, who tragically died when Derek was just 14 years old.  Sent away from his family to finish h...

The Brooklyn-class light cruiser USS Boise (CL-47) was one of the most famous US combat ships of World War II, already internationally renowned fol...

Air-conditioning is one of those universal modern conveniences whose origins are entirely unknown to the general public. Online sources credit the ...

The Rescue Ships and the Convoys tells the history of one of the least known aspects of Second World War maritime history. Despite the threat of he...

The Dover Straits is the resting place for many wrecks and this book reveals the stories behind a selection of these unfortunate vessels. This high...

Searching for the Origins of the Portuguese Waltzes is a collection of narratives depicting a six-year quest to discover the roots of a piece of tr...

Situated in the middle of the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is like a stepping-stone between the lands that surround it. In medieval times, it played ...

First published in 1724 following a marked increase in pirate attacks on the Spanish Main and the resultant Wapping executions, Captain Charles Joh...

The Maritime Silk Road foregrounds the numerous networks that have been woven across oceanic geographies, tying world regions together often far mo...

The story of herring is entwined in the history of commercial fishing. For over two millennia, herring has been commercially caught and its importa...