Gabriel Bray embarked as a lieutenant for the voyage of HMS Pallas to the West coast of Africa and Jamaica in 1774-1775. He left behind an album of seventy-five drawings of that cruise, which ...

In 1961 the so-called ‘ Red Crusader incident’ came close to igniting a cod war between Denmark and Great Britain. In June 1961 the Aberdeen trawler Red Crusader was spotted fishing within the 6-mile ...

In 1974 the Legiao Portuguesa (Portuguese Legion) and all its sections were finally disbanded, leaving its members with a reputation as informers for the regime’s political police. This was not the ...

This article considers the British shipbuilding industry’s record in building container ships under private control then state control through nationalization of the industry under the British ...

Vasa II: Rigging and Sailing a Swedish Warship of 1628, Part I: The material remains and archaeological context makes for arguably the most scrutinizing examination of Vasa published to date. More ...

Alternative medical practitioner Henry Hall Sherwood designed, made and sold electromagnetic drugs and medical electrical machines. The American medical establishment labelled him a ‘quack’. His ...

During the 1870s three naval vessels participated in the study of the Pacific Ocean. In 1873 the Royal Navy’s HMS Challenger departed from Portsmouth, ...

In Global Trade and the Shaping of English FreedomWilliam Pettigrew presents five case studies to demonstrate the ways that interactions between English merchants and foreign traders, ministers, kings ...

Piracy poses a historical problem. Maritime depredation has been a widespread and multidimensional phenomenon, always subject to competing interests and interpretations. What constitutes piracy, both ...

The construction of built-up guns has been conjectural until their recovery from the Mary Rose, but examples of cannon from Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands are available for study. The article ...

Cook’s voyages played a significant part in the history of science and were supported by initially the Royal Society and later by the Board of Longitude. Astronomers, naturalists and artists went on ...