I've just listened to this podcast and enjoyed it very much. But I would quibble with one small point that probably wouldn't matter to most of your listeners, but is relevant to the story of sea songs ...

Between 1611 and 1620, the duke of Osuna, viceroy of Sicily and later Naples, influenced Spanish naval policy in the Mediterranean. Transitioning from privateering focused on Ottoman trade routes, he ...

In 2023 renewed attention was paid by Dutch media to the silk dress and other high-quality objects retrieved from a seventeenth-century shipwreck recently found near Texel. The suggestion that the ...

While much work has been done on the key figures in the Woodes Rogers expedition of 1708– 11, including the principal investors who made the voyage possible, comparatively little focus has been given ...

Recent scholarship confirms that early-modern maritime workers were often married, and that sailors’ wives were far from passive economic subjects. They actively developed strategies to augment the ...

An article on ‘The Prince Royal of Denmark’s Yacht’ published in the November 2024 issue of ‘The Mariner’s Mirror’ (*) included this photograph (on p407) of a 1786 painting by the British marine ...

I wonder if anyone has drawings/details of the coke powered Brown Caloric engine? There were two fitted to LV50 in 1879, purchased from New York to provide compressed air for the siren fog horns.

I’ve received this from Stephen Glynn in the US who suggests an interesting resource for those interested in anti-slavery patrols: I absolutely love listening to your podcasts, and I have especially ...

The Battle of the Nile of 1798 was one of the most important naval battles that has ever been fought. This episode presents an introduction explaining the context of the battle and is followed by a ...