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 ...

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.

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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...

The SHE-SEES exhibition, hosted in partnership with the Lloyds Register Foundation, Portsmouth Historic Quarter and the University of Portsmouth, taps into archive materials from across the UK and ...

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

Also it’s not a lieutenant’s uniform of 1805; they didn’t have epaulettes. This is the undress uniform of a captain with more than three years’ post. There is one C19 Lt John Huey; he passed his ...

I’m afraid I can find no records of a John Huey being commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, in fact there is no record of a John Huey at all before the start of the 20C. THere is nothing in ...