Maritime History

One of Britains most loved cruise ships, Aurora was built by Meyer Werft and entered service in 2000. Named by HRH The Princess Royal, she was spec...

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Pirates and Privateers tells the fascinating story of the buccaneers who were the scourge of merchants in the 18th Century. It examines their lifes...

When HMS Laurentic sank in 1917, few knew what cargo she was carrying, and the Admiralty wanted to keep it that way. After all, broadcasting that t...

*Shortlisted for the 2019 Mountbatten Award* We went up on deck and were looking around when the awful crash came. The ship listed so much that ...

All civilisations have faced the challenges of trading by sea: storms, bad weather, and the hazards of cliffs and other natural landmarks that thre...

Brandy for the parson, baccy for the clerk...' We have an image, mostly from movies and novels, of a tall ship riding gently at anchor in a moonli...

When Titanic foundered in April 1912, the world's focus was on the tragedy of the passengers who lost their lives. Ever since, in films, dramatisat...

Waterford harbour has centuries of tradition based on its extensive fishery and maritime trade. Steeped in history, customs and an enviable spirit,...

SS Terra Nova was most famous for being the vessel to carry the ill-fated 1910 polar expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott, but the story of this m...

A unique chronology, Titanic: A Journey Through Time tells the captivating full story, moment by moment, from the birth of the key players to the l...

To sail the oceans needed skill as well as courage and experience, and the sea chart with, where appropriate, the coastal view, was the tool by whi...

This book is an introduction to the remarkable life of Charles Plomer Hopkins. Charles Plomer Hopkins, a Victorian church organist, called by circu...

This is the narrative of a harpooner in the whale-ship Charles W Morgan, whose four-year voyage in 1849-1853 took him from New Bedford, Massachuset...

The first figureheads that were carved to represent the names of British warships appeared during the reign of Henry VIII; the last ones were carve...

From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World Wa...

Skilfully uses this notorious episode to illuminate the nature and extent of piracy in the period. The pirate attack on the British brig Morning S...

An overview of the history of yachting in its social, cultural, political and economic contexts. Shortlisted for the Maritime Foundation's Mountba...

Sea Struck brings alive the final decades of square-rigged sail through the accounts of voyages made on three ships by three young men from Massach...

Here is an indispensable addition to the lighthouse enthusiasts library, required reading for those interested in New England maritime history, and...

The RNLI is well known for its life-saving activities. Less celebrated are the volunteer life brigades, set up in the late nineteenth century to pr...

This new series begins with British passenger ship, those great and grand vessels that connected the continents, but also those far-off, colonial o...

This colourful history tells the story of Cunards RMS Queen Mary, who along with her running mate Queen Elizabeth covered the transatlantic route f...

This is the story of the submarines which failed to come home in both war and peace. They will remain for eternity as the Silent Warriors of the Br...