Maritime History

Take a voyage through the rich history of passenger ships. From mass migration through to luxury holidays, passenger shipping has played a central ...

In 1977, the remote British island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, host to Napoleon and Captain Bligh, and Boer War prisoner-of-war camp, was f...

The Golden Age of Liner travel was from the early 1900s to the 1950s, a period dominated by black and white photography, with little colour views. ...

The James Caird is an unlikely hero, a 23-foot lifeboat that completed the most desperate and celebrated open boat voyage in history. On board were...

`I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve. George Bernard Shaw Since ancien...

At the beginning of his diary, on 1st January 1660, Samuel Pepys noted that Lawson lies still in the River. A mere two weeks before, amid rioting i...

Crack the case with the InvestiGators! Join Mango and Brash in InvestiGators Braver and Boulder for the fifth adventure in the laugh-out-loud full ...

A new framework contextualizes crucial international security issues at sea in the Indo-Pacific Competition at sea is once again a central issue o...

Abraham Whipple (1733-1819) commanded insurgents who destroyed HMS Gaspee in Narragansett Bay and helped direct the successful invasion of the Baha...

'Captivating, a John le Carre-esque yarn' Telegraph'A thoroughly good read' Michael Portillo, author of Portillo's Hidden History of Britain and pr...

An examination of the mid-seventeenth century maritime battles between Ireland, England, and Scotland, showing them to have had a dramatic impact o...

An epic journey through sea shanties, high tides and seven seasFrom the international bestselling singer comes The Book of Sea Shanties.The world s...

This is the story of the greatest naval conflict in historyThe Second World War demanded more of its sailors than any other war in history, in endu...

This book tells the story of HMS New Zealand, a battlecruiser paid for by the people of New Zealand in 1909, and when Japan was perceived as a thre...

At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built w...

A superbly illustrated new account of how Germany's High Seas Fleet was built, operated and fought, as it challenged the world's most powerful navy...

Launching Osprey's new Fleet series, this is a spectacularly illustrated, concise and comprehensive account of the Imperial Japanese Navy's strikin...

The X- and XE-Class submarines were conceived during the Second World War: around 51ft (16m) long, they were designed to be towed by a mother subma...

Surprisingly, the remarkable story of the Scottish role in the discovery of the Northwest Passage a long desired trade route connecting the Atlant...