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 ...

Having answered a query concerning the correct spelling of ‘mizzen’ (one ‘z’ or two) Carr Laughton then proceeds to establish the origin of the word and its different usage through the ages. The free ...

A study of the boat, possibly the Admiral’s barge, which was driven ashore in 1796 on Bere Island, and later copied many times for international competitions. The free quarterly newsletter of the ...

No further regulations were issued after 1641 regarding the vending of clothes on his Majesty’s ships but Perrin reproduces two lists of 1656 and 1663, showing purchase prices and clothes returned ...

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 ...

The author provides evidence of the use of the Semaphore Telegraph by the French in the early stages of the French Revolution (see MM Volume 1, Issue 9). The free quarterly newsletter of the Society ...

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Shows how the dilemmas faced by Christian travellers taking passage with excommunicate seafarers gave rise to the legal principle of the inviolability of contracts. Andrea traces the roots of the ...

A study of the crew lists of ships registered at Bristol has revealed much interesting information about the age groups of the seamen carried in these ships, their trades, nationalities and the ...

The translation of the original document details the expenses incurred in maintaining the King’s vessels at different points around the South Coast. Not only are new-builds and repairs to existing ...

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The short note points out that in 1826 the Admiralty ordered that, by direction of the King, in future a Jack with white border would be used worldwide as a pilot flag and the Union Jack would no ...