I’m currently working on a long-term research and documentation project that has grown into a forthcoming book on the structure of the Cutty Sark — now under contract with a major publisher. Over the ...

Royal interest was always there, and royal visits were reported in the newspapers and court circular. This boosted public interest in the ship, and despite the fact that the only access open to ...

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 ...

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Hi all, I’m searching for information on the steamtug “Wyola”, built in 1912 by JT Eltringham & Co. in South Shields, for the Swan River Shipping Company of Western Australia, to the order of ...

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 ...

If you use the Mariner’s Mirror search function on the SNR Website there is quite a lot on seafarer clothing, noting that there was no ‘uniform’ for naval ratings in this era, so little difference in ...

Can anyone enlighten me as to when the FAA adopted Ship Identity Letters on the tails of aircraft? I suspect it was late in the Second World War. I have seen no photographic evidence from before 1944 ...

Hello Everyone – I’m working on a ship model project – and to start with I need to know where the best ship models are…suggestions please, and not just in the UK. Sam W. — I am sure “best” means ...

Otto Kretschmer was the most successful U-boat commander of the Second World War. While his wartime actions have been narrated several times, his tactics, summarized by the famous motto ‘one torpedo, ...

Andrew Baines studied both Quantity Surveying and Maritime Conservation Science at the University of Portsmouth. He has developed a career in the care of historic ships, working first on HMS Warrior, ...