‘A correct view of the French Flat-Bottom Boats intended to convey their troops for the invasion of England, as seen afloat in Charante Bay in August 1803 – these flat bottom boats are about 120 feet ...

The majority of the images used in this site come from the vast image collections of the Royal Museums, Greenwich. They can be searched in their entirety here.

I have recently finished reading the biography of Sir Max Horton and I was wondering where his personal papers may be found. The three Captains of the Submarine Flotillas in the Mediterranean often ...

This aquatint of an early fifteenth-century fighting ship is taken from a work by the nineteenth-century British artist Charles Henry Seaforth, made in 1812. Seaforth’s work was inspired by the ...

In the church of Weston-on-Avon there is a stained glass window with images of boats. These have identified as salt barges. The profile looks very much like a Severn trow with a straight transom and ...

SS Emerald was sailing in company with a number of ships on the night of 31st Jan 1944 off Beachy Head when a flotilla of e-boats attacked sinking several vessels including Emerald (806 tons) and the ...

I am looking into the activities of the Russian Baltic Fleet while it was based at Chatham for about 18 months in 1812-14 during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. The fleet of 18 ships of the line and ...

In 1939 Norway, then a country of 3 million people, had the world’s fourth-largest fleet of merchant ships, over 1,000 of which they put at the disposal of the Allies during the Second World War to ...

Does anyone have information on how the second hand market in smaller sailing vessels operated in the period c1850-1930? I guess that brokers played a part but how did potential buyers and sellers get ...

Since the 1970s, the Caribbean has been a hub for nautical archaeology, often focusing on European naval ordnance as evidence of early modern maritime occupation. The mid-nineteenth century ushered in ...

The last Rye Barge in existence is called Primrose. It is sited for repair and conservation at the Shipwreck Museum, Hastings. These barges sailed the Rivers Brede, Rother, Tillingham and Pannell for ...

The French warship La Suippe arrived in the vicinity of Falmouth in 1940 from France, having escaped from the advancing German forces. It was bombed in or around Falmouth and set on fire and ...