This year, the Society’s AGM will take place at Exeter Guildhall at 1700 on Saturday, 7th June 2025. The event coincides with the Bowlines Maritime Literary Festival and Exeter’s annual Heritage ...

The rapid naval technological development of the late nineteenth century presented navies with numerous challenges. For the Royal Navy this included protecting the Nation’s global trade, although the ...

Hornby, Commander in chief Portsmouth, were the epitome of the close relationship between naval training and naval doctrine during the ironclad era. They rehearsed the establishment of an advanced ...

HMS Calliope, launched in 1884, was a Calypso-Class Corvette and became one of the most famous ships of the Royal Navy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century when she was the only vessel, of a ...

Full Members of the SNR receive hard copies of the four issues of The Mariner’s Mirror that are published every year as well as the four copies of the Society’s Newsletter, Topmasts. Members of the ...

The fifteenth edition of the illustrated annual provides a fresh assessment of navies, new ships, and advanced technology. The impact of the title spread, HMS Glasgow floating out in November 2022, is ...

‘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 ...

Wooden ships have three main enemies – fire, dry-rot and worms, and rot was a major problem that affected the operational readiness of the fleet. Although rot must have been a problem for many ...

The free quarterly newsletter of the Society for Nautical Research keeping you up to date with all society news, short research articles, headlines from the world of maritime research and heritage, ...

The employment of licensed privateers to prey on enemy shipping was a well attested feature of naval warfare in the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries. Nadal tells of Majorcan corsairs refused ...

The free quarterly newsletter of the Society for Nautical Research keeping you up to date with all society news, short research articles, headlines from the world of maritime research and heritage, ...

The free quarterly newsletter of the Society for Nautical Research keeping you up to date with all society news, short research articles, headlines from the world of maritime research and heritage, ...