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

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., ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

What did people wear in naval battles and why? The adoption, style and development of naval uniform is a hugely significant subject – one which helps us understand not only the development of the navy ...

Dr Sam Willis explores the many wounds that Nelson received in his life, as well as his fatal wound received at the Battle of Trafalgar. Sam speaks with Michael Crumplin, a retired consultant general ...

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 ...

In April 1912, the Titanic – the largest vessel in the world, and the largest man-made moving object that had by then been created – struck an iceberg, split in half and sank in the middle of the ...

The yawls have disappeared from active life within the previous quarter century. The Bittern built in 1890 still survives as a dismantled hull and a model of it has been made for the Southwold Sailors ...