Thanks so much for reaching out. We have tried to contact you via email to explain these delays further, but we expect the mariner’s Mirror journals to be published very soon, and we apologise for the ...
Thanks so much for reaching out. We have tried to contact you via email to explain these delays further, but we expect the mariner’s Mirror journals to be published very soon, and we apologise for the ...
I am looking for any sources on Pamela Hardy whose name was attached to many forged and spurious ‘Lord Nelson Relics’ that were sold at Christies auctions in the 1930s. I am wondering if the Mariner’s ...
And yes I think that is a woman helping the injured sailor. We know they were onboard many ships and John Nicol recounts how they helped bring powder to the guns so that would make sense. Love to know ...
Hi everyone – I’m preparing a piece to publish for our maritime art series on this mezzotint ‘Sailors in a Fight’. I’ve always hugely enjoyed it. Who can help explain exactly what is happening? There ...
reading David R.MacGregor’s great book, Fast Sailing Ships, Their Design And Construction 1775 – 1875, I came across the following sentence: Alexander Stephen Jnr estimated the first cost and interest ...
Does anyone know of a historian who has worked on sounds at sea? I’ve just found a ‘piping chart’ in an early seamanship manual and I’d like someone to author a short magazine piece (c.1000 words) for ...
Nick Phillips and I have a draft paper entitled ‘Sailing outside the box: Seeing a bluewater passage maker in a coastal cruiser‘, and would keen to hear from anyone with comments or suggestions. The ...
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 ...
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, ...