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This query concerns a possible overlap with interests of the Antique Metalware Society for whom , as a member also, I am preparing a newsletter article. Prior to other forms, ships’ lighting was by ...

The Navy Records Society published Naval Songs and Ballads in 1908 and it is their most popular volume! I’m launching a project to get audio recordings of every song in the book. The slight catch is ...

This image is a formal costume plate depicting Royal Navy officers’ uniforms, probably from the early to mid-nineteenth century, when naval dress was becoming increasingly standardised. Three officers ...

Hello – I have volunteered to rebuild the control electronics for a model of the Chatley Heath semaphore tower which was built as part of a chain from London to Portsmouth using a mast and paddles ...

My main interest is in the grey navy but I came across these thick beams at a friend’s house in Hampshire recently, built around 1450. It is believed they are timbers from a sailing ship broken up, ...

Jayne Friend is speaking at Liverpool John Moores University on 25 March about her new book, Destroyers, Naval Culture and British Identity. The hybrid event will be hosted in room 106, John Foster ...

Does anyone know of a book on the above subject? It seems almost impossible that no-one has written such a thing, but I can find nothing on-line, no matter what search terms I use. Thank you, Sam. I ...

Crimean War’s Sea of Azov campaign saw British gunboats disrupt Russia, shaping naval strategy and leading to the HMS Captain disaster. The popular memory of Crimean War is a story of siege and ...

Dr Barton has already provided me with some very helpful information and comments but I haven’t been able to arrive at a definitive where or when this token was issued. Following his advice to ...

Would it be usual for the commissioning ceremony of a Royal Navy warship to be recorded in the ship’s log? I am researching the history of HMS Totem (later the ill-fated Israeli submarine Dakar), and ...

Leanna T. P. Brinkley’s Coastal Trade and Maritime Communities in Elizabethan England is a contribution to the study of early modern English trade, local and regional business networks, as well as the ...