This episode looks at the extraordinary maritime history of Scarborough, a port town on the UK’s northeastern coast. Famed for its medieval herring fair that features in Simon and Garfunkel’s 1960s ...

The first dock constructed in the United Kingdom was the Howland Great Wet Dock at Rotherhithe, built sometime before 1703 when it was first recorded as being in use. Shown in the accompanying ...

This is a first-hand account of the lives of the Humber keelmen, written by a former owner and commander of a Humber keel. The article includes a list of the keels and sloops sailing on the Humber ...

The construction of built-up guns has been conjectural until their recovery from the Mary Rose, but examples of cannon from Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands are available for study. The article ...

This article reviews the function of the mould loft and mast houses constructed at the Royal Dockyard Chatham in the 18 th and 19 th centuries. The loft is the only surviving intact mould loft from ...

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Elizabethan and early Jacobeantrading voyages were managed by a triumvirate: the master, responsible for navigation, ship handling and the safe conveyance of cargoes; the agent of the merchants that ...

Prior to c.1535 British naval power was largely an ad hoc affair, with fleets being raised according to prevailing need and then discarded. Henry VIII”s confrontation with the Papacy gave rise to the ...

The development of the Severn Trow from the 15 th to early 20th century is discussed. The earliest form was an open flat bottomed, double ended barge progressively developing a more rounded section ...

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The Fishburns and the Langbournes were two of the three most notable Whitby shipbuilders in the last decade of the eighteenth century. Thomas Fishburn was known for producing ship-rigged vessels with ...

The few sources of information on organisation within the Roman Navy are explored. The role of the naval force is deduced to be that of an auxiliary within the military machine. The free quarterly ...