Maritime History

A shipwreck is a time capsule. When a maritime archaeologist picks up an item from the seabed, it is a direct connection with history. The last tim...

An awe-inspiring deep-dive into the treasures found on the sea floor and what they reveal about our past. In Wonders in the Deep Mensun Bound, the ...

On January 21, 1840, Dumont d'Urville discovers an immense Antarctic land. At the head of the Astrolabe, the future Rear Admiral, last in line of g...

In a world of gunpowder, smoke and blood, two mens love will rise above the chaos.'An absorbing follow-up to the brilliant Leeward' The TimesIn 180...

Taking the height of the poleFor the sixteenth century navigator this meant finding your latitude. Five centuries ago, to the year, the first nauti...

Economic Warfare and the Sea examines the relationship between trade, maritime warfare, and strategic thought between the early modern period and t...

After Britains Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, a squadron of Royal Navy vessels was sent to the West Coast of Africa tasked with suppress...

From the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Barbary corsairs from North Africa swarmed the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, seizing en...

In November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton watched horrified as the grinding ice floes of the Weddell Sea squeezed the life from his ship, Endurance. ...