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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Neither the ancient Greeks nor the Romans had a formal concept of international law of the sea, in part because the modern concept of coequal nations did not itself yet exist. However, the maritime ...

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 ...

Sea power and the ability to supply by sea was key to Parliament’s success in holding out at the siege of Lyme Regis against numerically much stronger Royalist troops led by Prince Maurice. An account ...

Since 1908 Chatham Dockyard had specialised in the building of conventional submarines, but Britain becoming an independent nuclear power in 1957 heralded change. After abandonment of Blue Streak and ...

Colin White, who died in December 2007, was greatly respected both as an outstanding museum professional and naval historian. He joined the staff of the Royal Naval Museum in 1975, as a research ...

This paper discusses the role of the Royal Navy in the acquisition of Weihaiwei in China as a northern naval base for the China Squadron. The decision was made for political motives rather than naval ...

Notes taken from the Public Record Office on the dates and details of construction of the Semaphore Telegraph stations erected during the Napoleonic wars, the routes served and the number of stations ...

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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 ...