Letters to his father and brother by A. Hardy, midshipman on board HMS Nassau at Yarmouth, casting new light on the 1797 mutiny are reproduced. They show that Nassau played a more important part in ...

The background to the often retold story of the death of Fanny Adams and the myth that her remains were found in a tin of meat, correcting the previous notes in The Mariner’s Mirror over many years.

This article gives a detailed insight into the life of John Tyrrell, following archaeological investigations of the third rate ship Anne, the only English loss in the battle of Beachy Head, 1690, ...

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The introduction of public advertisements in the London Gazette was a significant change to the previous system of purveyance and individual contracts for ...

“The Mariner’s Mirrour” was the title chosen by Ashley for his English translation of Waghenaer’s “Speighel der Zeevaerdt”, with the cover of the journal reproducing the title page of the first ...

This article provides a survey of Guernsey-based privateering from roughly 1689 to 1815. The opportunity is also used to discuss reciprocal privateering ...

Part 7 of a series of articles drawn from the manuscript of the late Sir Oswyn Murray, originally planned as a volume in the Whitehall Series. This Part deals with the organisational structure of the ...