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The National Maritime Museum (NMM) part of Royal Museums Greenwich, and the Royal College of Art (RCA) are delighted to announce the availability of a fully funded four-year collaborative doctoral ...
I am currently researching the transmission of Iberian geographic knowledge into English cartography, specifically how Portuguese toponyms may have found their way onto the Molyneux globe of 1592. One ...
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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 ...
The free quarterly newsletter of the Society for Nautical Research keeping you up to date with all society news, short research articles, headlines from the world of maritime research and heritage, ...
This article traces Dockyard history by reference to the principal craftsmen, shipwrights and carpenters. Whereas in the sixteenth century these were occasionally impressed from a wide area, in 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 ...
Dating back to the late 13th century this wreck lies in 26m of water some 110nm North of Jakarta and 40nm off the Sumatran coast. She displaced around 300 tonnes. Earlier looting had taken place prior ...
King Philip II delayed sending galleys to defend Santo Domingo from pirates, due to instability, corruption, and monetary chaos on the island of Hispaniola. The two galleys finally sent in 1582 soon ...
Excavations undertaken during the years from 1924 on in Malta revealed a number of objects whose form justifies their classification as anchors. The small anchors, suspected to be votive objects, date ...
Admiral Sir John Norris 1670 (or 1671)-1749: his Birth and Early Service, his Marriage and his Death
The author throws new light on Norris’s origins, early service, marriage and death. Norris entered the Navy aged 9 or 10 as the ‘servant’ of Captain Richard Borthwick and almost immediately joined the ...
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