Sixty-two German U-boats made the perilous passage into the Mediterranean during the Second World War, nine were sunk trying to pass the Straits of Gibraltar and another ten were forced to abandon the ...

In the early 19 th century, Mexico produced approximately half of the world’s silver. Along with gold and jewels, this was used to pay for British trade goods. The problem was how to get these safely ...

A continuation of Admiral Ballard’s consideration of the evidence of Egyptian naval architecture to be found in the Valley of the Nile, and what it tells us about the seafarers of ancient Egypt. It is ...

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 ...

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The article focuses on the political intrigues and machinations behind the operations of the Fleet commanded by the Commonwealth General at Sea Robert Blake, through the correspondence of his ...

An account of one of Anson’s crew who suffered madness at sea and, three years after his return, committed a murder in his hometown of Edinburgh. He had previously shown clear evidence of an ...

Neither the ancient Greeks nor the Romans had a formal concept of international law of the sea, in part because the modern concept of coequal nations did not itself yet exist. However, the maritime ...

This posthumously published essay by the former Surgeon Vice Admiral of the Royal Navy considers how naval and civilian medical discoveries, attitudes and practices influenced each other during the ...

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In this article the author explores Spain’s approach to naval recruitment during the 18th century. In an effort to increase the number of mariners in its service without resorting primarily to the use ...

One way to follow scholars’ interests in the cultural and technological transmission of traits and specific crafts or artifacts is this paper, based on the evidence of the evolution and distribution ...