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The Society of Nautical Research is pleased to present this year’s Anderson Medal, for the best maritime publication, to Dr James Davey for his book Tempest: The Royal Navy in the Age of Revolutions ...

Continuing from his Note in MM Volume 2, Issue 3 Vaughan provides earlier written evidence of the general use of ‘port’ when instructing the helmsman to steer to the left. In his 1644 ‘Seaman’s ...

Writing in his Glossaire Nautique, concerning various ancient pictures of ships of unnamed types that had come under his observation, Jal describes one, not illustrated by him, in terms equivalent to ...

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Transport of meat required cold storage at port of loading, on-board and on discharge. The discussion concentrates on mechanical on-board systems. Early voyages under sail required auxiliary engines, ...

In this paper, James Hornell quotes the existing bibliography and develops his previous notes on this kind of craft. He mentions the origin and influence of Indonesian types on Madagascar ones, since ...

The article questions the accuracy of a number of written accounts and film presentations of the voyage and mutiny and of Bligh’s character. Many contain much uncritical borrowing from elsewhere.

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The author studies the existing sands in shallow waters off Great Britain, and enumerates the different ways of approaching them. Etymologically speaking, many names are variants of old words for ...

The use of the wheel to activate a ship’s rudder via the tiller came into use in the early 1700’s, in England, France and later Venetia. The essential problem was to translate the rotary motion of the ...

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