On Thursday 28 November, at the annual Awards Evening of Portsmouth’s Admiral Lord Nelson School, Raha Mortezai-Far received ...

The ring-finger-hook-up was also apparent in the helicopter world. In the FAA the helicopter for small ships was the Wasp. There were foldout doors around the engine gearbox unit upon which the ...

Image: ‘Staff Bible’ entry for Newman Mumford, 379. LRFHEC.

In the church of Weston-on-Avon there is a stained glass window with images of boats. These have identified as salt barges. The profile looks very much like a Severn trow with a straight transom and ...

Scholars of Polynesian history, culture or language will welcome the Hakluyt Society’s critical edition of William Mariner’s An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

First a cautionary note. Readers should not confuse this non-fictional account of the battle of Midway with Kevin Miller’s 2020 novel by the same title and on the same subject. Both works employ the ...

In 1840 the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company inaugurated a mail service from England to Alexandria that was then extended onwards from Suez to Ceylon, Madras and Calcutta. The transfer ...

Claude Berube, a former US naval officer and instructor at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, argues in this much-needed (and lavishly-researched) study of the late 1820s–1830s that the seventh US ...

In the opening pages Karel Davids makes the aims of his book crystal clear. He wishes to bring global, maritime and economic histories together to provide a plug for the ‘blue hole’ currently present ...

In an impressive, readable study John Harris explains how the United States slave trade expanded in the decade before the Civil War and ended abruptly. Though Congress banned the traffic in 1808 and ...

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