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From the Society for Nautical Research in partnership with Lloyd’s Register Foundation, I’m Sam Willis. And this is the Mariner’s Mirror Podcast, the world’s number one podcast dedicated to all of ...

It is a little known and extraordinary fact that over 300 years ago the Inuit made crossings from Greenland to the Orkney Isles and northern Scotland. The journey across the hostile North Atlantic is ...

The ability to navigate in icy seas is one of the most important themes in the historical and contemporary story of human interaction with the sea. Over centuries of development ships are now able to ...

With frequent headlines in the news highlighting the plight of refugees suffering shipwreck in the Mediterranean, death at sea is an important contemporary issue. This episode explores the historical ...

Dr Philip Read (independent scholar) A Boston Schooner in the Royal Navy: Commerce and Conflict in Maritime British America, 1768—1772 This grant is supporting research into HMS Sultana, an 8 gun ...

The 1660s were a time of great turmoil in England. In 1666 the great fire of London had destroyed much of the country’s capital and just a year earlier the great plague had killed a fifth of the ...

In Dr Sam Willis’ book “The Fighting Temeraire” he wrote the following on the 1759 Battle of Lagos: “[La Clue] took his ships to a tiny creek in between Lagos and Cape St Vincent that was guarded by ...

In this, the second of our dramatisations of witness testimony given at the British Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry into the Titanic disaster we hear from Fred Barrett, a stoker from Liverpool. Fred had ...

A mini-series on the maritime history of Germany launches with a visit to the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, which has recently launched a stand-out new permanent exhibition ‘Ship Realms – The ...

This episode explores the wonderful Essex coastline – for those of you not familiar with the geography of England, this is the beautiful area a little to the north and east of London. We find out ...

In the stores of the London Science Museum is a highly significant collection of ship models of Chinese junks. They were commissioned by Sir Frederick Maze who worked as the Inspector General of the ...