Following the French Revolutionary, American and Napoleonic wars between 1793 and 1815, many smaller British warships were sold to merchant ship owners directly or to shipyards for breaking or resale.

The extant record of Captain James Cook’s third Pacific voyage (1776–80) provides multiple detailed accounts, affording the opportunity to compare how the voyage’s officers portrayed themselves and ...

Between the wars, the British fishing industry faced an invidious economic climate. Costs rose, over-fishing and falling prices depressed incomes, and structural faults that had mattered little in the ...

This article aims to clarify the origins of the animosity that developed between Admiral Sir William Parker (1742–1802), one of the Royal Navy’s senior commanders at the battle of Cape St Vincent in ...

A new digitization, research and conservation project has made available to the public 248 works on paper by Scottish artist, war artist and war correspondent William Simpson (1823 –99).Footnote 1 The ...

In this episode we hear all about the rich and long maritime history of the English port of Hull. Dr Sam Willis spoke with Sam Wright, a tour guide of historic Hull as well as a researcher working on ...

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The other use of gavels in the RN, is they are used by the Mess President at formal dinners. So, they could easily be given to a guest at a final dinner. I have one from such an origin. But this is ...

I am currently a first year PhD candidate at the University of Leeds, and my PhD project is a study of the 1744 invasion attempt of Britain by France. In the course of my research I came across the ...

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This aquatint showing ships of William the Conqueror is taken from a work by the nineteenth-century British artist Charles Henry Seaforth (b.1801) that was based on the Bayeux Tapestry. The tapestry ...