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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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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 ...

The Wellington Trust Board of Trustees announced on 3 September that HM the King has approved the name change from HQS Wellington to HMS Wellington (1934). HMS Wellington is the Grimsby class sloop ...

Mark, you are correct, I altered it by inserting an electric candle lamp and bulb. i also lined it with shear, pleated fabric for decorative purposes. It was badly tarnished and obviously old and ...

There is no trace of a John Huey in the comprehensive lists of those who were present at the battle = ...

There is a great deal of detailed information about the practicalities of hoisting screws and other seamanlike evolutions aboard British steam-and-sail battleships in the 1870s and 1880s in the ...