In 1950 Dame Caroline Haslett was accorded the honour of launching a motor collier ship named after her at the shipyard of Hall, Russell and Co., ...

Miguel Martins, University of Lisbon Augusto Salgado, University of Lisbon and Portuguese Navy Research Centre José Bettencourt, nova lisbon University ...

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A very special episode in our new Iconic Ships series, published on the anniversary of the loss of HMS Hood in 1941. HMS Hood is without doubt one of the Royal Navy’s most famous ships. A ...

Virtually all large ships are recycled today on the beaches of Asia. The United Kingdom was once the world’s biggest shipbreaker, but its industry had dwindled to virtual extinction by 1995. Why did ...

Full Members of the SNR receive hard copies of the four issues of The Mariner’s Mirror that are published every year as well as the four copies of the Society’s Newsletter, Topmasts. Members of the ...

We continue our mini series on maritime disasters with the extraordinary tale of the Andrea Doria, a magnificent Italian passenger liner lost off the coast of Massachusetts in 1956 when she was rammed ...

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We are delighted to announce that the Society has just launched a podcast – The Mariner’s Mirror Podcast. We have some fantastic partners lined up to work with in the coming months. The podcast is ...

Folklore, myths and legends relating to the sea have existed for as long as humans have been travelling by sea. The alien nature of the marine environment, the almost inconceivable scale of the oceans ...

Dr Sam Willis meets with the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin to discuss the many challenges the Royal Navy faces exercising sea power in the modern world. They discuss life on a modern ...

On the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar of 1805 we look at a question that is central to the legend that grew up around the events of October 1805. How did a naval officer end up with a state ...