Continuing from his Note in MM Volume 2, Issue 3 Vaughan provides earlier written evidence of the general use of ‘port’ when instructing the helmsman to steer to the left. In his 1644 ‘Seaman’s ...

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This document is an example of the procurement of shipping for a voyage to Gascony in 1440 for Edward Hull, a royal envoy, by Thomas Gille, a Dartmouth shipowner, the provisions made, the costs ...

This posthumously published essay by the former Surgeon Vice Admiral of the Royal Navy considers how naval and civilian medical discoveries, attitudes and practices influenced each other during the ...

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The use of the wheel to activate a ship’s rudder via the tiller came into use in the early 1700’s, in England, France and later Venetia. The essential problem was to translate the rotary motion of the ...

One of Spain’s treasure shipments was intercepted by an Irish privateer, one of many off the waters of Britain. Letters of marque issued by the Spanish authority in Flanders allowed privateers to ...

On 10 June 1825 an act was commissioned permitting the building and maintenance of a railway or tramroad for the passage of wagons from Llangynwyd to a bay called Porthcawl in South Wales. Alongside ...

The progression of the capital ship is charted from the two castle platform on which soldiers fought at close quarters to the floating battery of the Nelson era. Particular attention is paid to ...

Sir James Caird, who died in September 1954, was a major benefactor without whom neither the restoration of HMS Victory nor the establishment of a national maritime museum would have been possible. He ...

Biography of Richard Swanley an East India Company Captain, who wrote the detailed ship’s journal for the Jonas when it sailed under Captain Weddell in 1621. As Master of the James, Swanley ...

The article describes the attempts of the authors to understand and confirm the sea-faring competency and mobility of the Anglo-Saxons. By researching literary and archeological evidence, the authors ...