Account of how a Parliamentary naval squadron under the command of Sir George Ayscue besieged and finally captured the island of Barbados, which was under the command of the Royalist Governor, Lord ...

The article continues the description of the construction and use of coracles in Britain that could be found “until a few decades ago”. It covers the regions of the Ure, the Wye, the Severn, North ...

In 1628 the Dutch and Spanish had already been at war, with the occasional truce, for sixty years. What initially had begun as a war for Dutch independence in northern Europe had by this stage spilled ...

This year commemorates the 110th anniversary of the Titanic disaster. Here are our top 10 facts about the Titanic to go with our newly-produced video animating a 3D model of the ship built with the ...

In 1688 Prince William of Orange and his wife, Mary (James’ daughter) invaded England and seized the crown. England became protestant. The Battle of La Hogue in 1692 was the result of the French ...

Great news that the sunken wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s HMS Endurance has at long last been discovered deep in South Antarctica’s Weddell Sea where she has lain for 107 years, and in what an amazing ...

There have been fifteen ships in the Royal Navy that have carried the name Portsmouth, the first being built at Portsmouth in 1649, although since the 1740s the name was mainly used for Store Ships , ...

Please note that we will exploring this topic in a series on seamanship in the age of sail in the Mariner’s Mirror Podcast. Enjoy! Dr Sam Willis, Editor. To answer this question, I’ve studied ...

Were there ever minimum distances between centres for the spacing of gun ports, particularly on British-built ships? I can find no reference to such details in any of the recognised reference sources, ...

King Canute (Cnut) arrived off Sandwich in 1015 AD and sailed his fleet to the mouth of the Frome from where he began to raid the coasts of Dorset and Somerset and moved inland with Viking warriors to ...

Leanna T. P. Brinkley’s Coastal Trade and Maritime Communities in Elizabethan England is a contribution to the study of early modern English trade, local and regional business networks, as well as the ...

This unusual mural was created for the 1951 Festival of Britain, the brain child of the labour MP Herbert Morrison who wanted to create a nation-wide sense of well-being to counter the devastation of ...