Maritime History

On Friday 15 April 1927, the Derry Standard began to publish local photographs in the pages of its newspaper, with the hope `to present in the Derr...

Approaching 21st-century Dublin by boat, the topography of the sight before you - the hill of Howth, the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains - is much the...

Racundras First Cruise is Arthur Ransomes account of Racundras maiden voyage, which took place in August and September 1922. The cruise took him f...

This work offers a new and comprehensive account of the fastest and most beautiful sailing ships ever built. It explores the quest for speed on the...

This collection of new essays covers the myriad portrayals of the figure of the pirate in historical records, literary narratives, films, televi...

The growth of the ocean liner was driven not only by political and social changes, and developments in marine technology and design but also by inc...

The Blue Star Line was founded by brothers William and Edmund Vestey in 1911 to ship meat in refrigerated vessels from Australia, New Zealand and S...

The incredible story of how Australias greatest maritime mystery was solved.In November 1941 HMAS Sydney, the pride of Australias wartime fleet, an...

Chamier was a Royal Navy officer, who like his exact contemporary Captain Marryat is best remembered for a series of naval novels. The Life of a Sa...

World War I is one of the iconic conflicts of the modern era. For many years the war at sea has been largely overlooked; yet, at the outbreak of th...

Original designed in 1934 for anti-submarine training, by the end of the war seventy-two U-Class subs had been commissioned. Seventeen were lost t...

Emma, Lady Hamilton, rose from poverty to become a media celebrity, and her relationship with Admiral Nelson, and her renowned beauty, made her the...

It was an age of evolution, when size and speed were almost the ultimate considerations. Bigger was said to be better and ship owners were not exem...

From the mid-1890s a race was on between the merchant navies of the recently unified Germany, Britain and France. That race was to make the most lu...