SS Emerald was sailing in company with a number of ships on the night of 31st Jan 1944 off Beachy Head when a flotilla of e-boats attacked sinking several vessels including Emerald (806 tons) and the ...

Thks Byrne – I’ve had great results over the past few years using a (now retired) London based researcher who found agreements going back as far as 1838 for me. I’m aware of the resource in ...

I needed hundreds of crew agreements when I studied my husband’s great-grandfather’s professional career as a part-owner master of a series of sailing ships in the nineteenth century. The Memorial ...

We may think of globalism as a recent development but its origins date back to the fifteenth century and beyond, when seafarers pioneered routes across the oceans with the objectives of exploration, ...

Does anybody know where I can find good translations of the poems of Gorch Fock, aka Johann Kinau, who served on the SMS Wiesbaden during the Battle of Jutland. I am particularly interested in his ...

Hello – I hope this request is ok for this forum. I’m from Brisbane, Australia and a SNR Member and looking for the crew list for the ship Maxwell which made a voyage from London to Melbourne in 1861 ...

Throughout the eighteenth century the Royal Navy was the largest employer of free black labour in a period when Britain was – at the same time – the largest trader in human lives across the Atlantic.

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I am looking into the activities of the Russian Baltic Fleet while it was based at Chatham for about 18 months in 1812-14 during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. The fleet of 18 ships of the line and ...

Terence Grocott’s “Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras” (Chatham, 1997) is invaluable. It’s not searchable by location but once you have your wreck it will provide the details from one ...

I’ve had an interesting query from Pamela Hickey. Can anyone help? We are making models of the Spanish Armada ships. We researched which flags were flown by the Spanish fleet and have come across many ...