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In the 1750s, the Admiralty established a sound policy; parallel evaluation of designs based on proven models. Frigates formed four independent classes with differing hull shapes, tillers, hawse holes ...

No formal hierarchy existed within the Royal Navy prior to 1748, therefore Admiralty approved uniforms were unnecessary. At the time ‘naval officer’ referred to non-military posts, whilst the military ...

The Dutch marine diver, John Jacop Janson, (in English Jacob Johnson) was hired in 1620 to recover guns from a shipwreck near Waterford. He was later hired to recover guns and valuable cargo from ...

Lord Torrington was sent to a court martial after the Battle of Beach Head on 30 th June 1690, the government held him responsible for the virtual annihilation of the Dutch squadron of the Combined ...

The subject of this article is the development of the naval dockyard and ancillaries at Plymouth. The author examines the planning and the construction of these facilities on the Devon side of the ...

The free quarterly newsletter of the Society for Nautical Research keeping you up to date with all society news, short research articles, headlines from the world of maritime research and heritage, ...

The reign of Elizabeth I saw increased commercial hostilities between England and Spain. The Basque region offered trading opportunities remote from the control of Spanish and French monarchs. Chester ...

The free quarterly newsletter of the Society for Nautical Research keeping you up to date with all society news, short research articles, headlines from the world of maritime research and heritage, ...

The free quarterly newsletter of the Society for Nautical Research keeping you up to date with all society news, short research articles, headlines from the world of maritime research and heritage, ...

Cook’s voyages played a significant part in the history of science and were supported by initially the Royal Society and later by the Board of Longitude. Astronomers, naturalists and artists went on ...

Steffy’s article is an amply illustrated and very detailed preliminary report on a bronze ram and adjacent bow timbers of a pre-Christian Era warship of unstated provenance found intact in November ...