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 ...

I will let others correct me but my understanding was that HMS came into use around 1790, I have found references to HMS Phoenix being the first use in 1789. Prior to that it was usually written “His ...

MHN return to Hartlepool to the wonderful National Museum of the Royal Navy, Historic Ships with a conference focussing on ...

Working in partnership with The Borthwick Institute for Archives (University of York, England), the tailors Henry Poole & Co ...

This episode continues our work bringing you some of the finest original historical material, written by the people who were actually there. On Friday 7th May 1915, Kapitänleutnant Schwieger found ...

We are sad to record the passing of John Ross, the honorary secretary of the Research and Programmes Committee on 19 December 2024. John had been an active member of the Committee and served as its ...

While Joseph Mallard William Turner made a beautiful, atmospheric moonlit study in oils of Newcastle keels working the Tyne in 1835 (Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight, in the collection of the ...

Throughout the Second World War, collier ships took coal to London from north-east ports. From the outset, the masters of these ships had to learn the skills of sailing in convoy with the additional ...