This describes the capture in the year 1592, near the island of Flores, in the Azores, of the Portuguese carrack Madre de Dios, homeward bound from Cochin, by an English fleet during the war between ...

A naval cause celebre, the dispute between Augustus Keppel and Sir Hugh Palliser after the inconclusive battle of Ushant in 1778 led to the courts martial (and acquittals) of both admirals. The causes ...

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This is a first-hand account of the lives of the Humber keelmen, written by a former owner and commander of a Humber keel. The article includes a list of the keels and sloops sailing on the Humber ...

The Fishburns and the Langbournes were two of the three most notable Whitby shipbuilders in the last decade of the eighteenth century. Thomas Fishburn was known for producing ship-rigged vessels with ...

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Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss – always known as Rosy – was at first sight a typical officer of the late Victorian Royal Navy. He came from a privileged background, was personable and well connected and ...

In 1717 and 1718 two sea battles occurred off Cape Matapan, on the south western coast of Greece’s Peloponnesian peninsula. On 19 July 1717, a combined fleet of Venetian, Portuguese, Maltese and Papal ...

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This article is concerned with the submittal of an original hull lines plan, extracted from reliable contemporary evidence, and primarily based on an outstanding scale model of an authentic ...

The Ashmolean Museum houses the oldest English ship model in existence, although its provenance and raison d’être has never been fully established. Details of the model, and restoration work carried ...