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Editorial The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Editor Martin Bellamy
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 110, No. 1, 2024)
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Graydon Read Henning 1936–2023 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Hugh Murphy
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 110, No. 1, 2024)
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Zeeland Privateering Captains During the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, 1780–1784 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Johan Francke
During the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–4) the fleet of the Dutch Republic was no match for the numerically far greater British navy. Her merchant ships were taken and the navy was forced to protec...
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The Birth and Growth of Two Scottish Deep-sea Tramp Ship Firms: Hugh Hogarth & Sons and the Lyle Shipping Company Limited, 1832–1967 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Hugh Murphy
This article is largely based on the surviving records of two Scottish tramp shipping firms, Hugh Hogarth & Sons and Lyle Shipping, the former privately owned throughout its history and the latter ...
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The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden, R. A., The Naturalist in H. M. S. ‘Alert’, 1875–1876 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Russell A. Potter
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 110, No. 1, 2024)
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Gallant Officers and Benevolent Men: Royal Navy officers, voluntarism and the launch of the Shipwrecked Mariners Society in the early Victorian era The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Cathryn Pearce
This article examines the relatively unexplored relationship between Royal Navy flag and commissioned officers and shore-based secular and civic voluntary societies in the early Victorian period us...
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The First Vanguard, 1586–1630 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2024-01-25 David Cressy
The royal ship Vanguard, the first of many English warships to bear that name, served three sovereigns between its construction in 1586 and scrapping in 1630. This article examines Vanguard’s readi...
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Chaplains in the Imperial Russian Navy, 1890–1914 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Sozont S. Singh
Naval chaplains in the Imperial Russian Navy faced particular difficulties at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They initially had little training and were not paid as part of the...
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‘Sharp like cut iron’: Albrecht von Stosch and the beginning of naval wargaming in the German navy The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Jorit Wintjes
The Seekriegsspiel, a naval version of the Prussian Kriegsspiel, was officially introduced to the German navy in 1876 by the then chief of the German admiralty, Albrecht von Stosch. Intended as an ...
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The Route to European Hegemony: India’s intra-Asian trade in the early modern period (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Mir Kamruzzaman Chowdhary
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 110, No. 1, 2024)
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War, Trade and the State: Anglo-Dutch conflict 1652–89 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Basil Bowdler
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 110, No. 1, 2024)
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The Bounty and Beyond: A textual and bibliographical investigation of William Bligh’s journals of the first breadfruit expedition The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Callum Easton
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 110, No. 1, 2024)
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Tempest: The Royal Navy and the age of revolutions The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Niklas Frykman
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 110, No. 1, 2024)
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A Great and Rising Nation: Naval exploration and global empire in the early US Republic The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2024-01-25 W. Mark Hamilton
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 110, No. 1, 2024)
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A Scottish Blockade Runner in the American Civil War: Joannes Wyllie of the steamer ‘Ad-Vance’ The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Jonathan W. White
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 110, No. 1, 2024)
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Maritime Men of the Asia–Pacific: True-blue internationals navigating labour rights, 1906–2006 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Matteo Barbano
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 110, No. 1, 2024)
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Square-rigger Sunset: The passages of the four- and five-masted ships and barques The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2024-01-25 FNI Frank Scott
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 110, No. 1, 2024)
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Warship 2023 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Derek G. Law
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 110, No. 1, 2024)
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Nautical Research and Artificial Intelligence The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Wolfgang Köberer
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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A Jacobean Draught of an 18-gun Ship in the Danish National Archives Drawn by Phineas Pett The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Mark Porter
This article discusses an early seventeenth-century draught of an 18-gun ship, which the author believes was drawn by Phineas Pett himself. This is based on handwriting comparisons, dating evidence...
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Under Five Flags: Miguirditch Gumuchdjian, an Armenian shipowner of Constantinople and London 1900–1932 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Roger Dence
The shipping interests of Miguirditch Gumuchdjian stemmed from a coal enterprise established in Constantinople in the mid-1890s. A local business partnership operating as coal-mine proprietors and ...
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Facing the Sea: Essays in Swedish maritime studies The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Adam Grimshaw
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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A Mighty Fleet and the King’s Power: The Isle of Man, AD 400 to 1265 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Alex Woolf
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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Foreign Jack Tars: The British Navy and transnational seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Manon Williams
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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Tsushima, Japan’s Trafalgar: The voyage of the condemned fleet to the Straits of Korea The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Andrew Choong Han Lin
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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Armada: The Spanish enterprise and England’s deliverance in 1588 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Catherine Scheybeler
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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Solving the Oneida Question: Anglo-American relations during a public outcry The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Matthew McLin
On 24 January 1870 USS Oneida sank when, sailing out of Tokyo Bay, it collided with the British ship Bombay, which failed to stop and render aid, leading to the deaths of 115 American sailors. This...
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Port Cities in Comparative Global History: A narrative review The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Sarah Ward, Ma Mingfei
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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Editorial The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Editor Martin Bellamy
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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The Petrol Navy: British, American and other motor boats at war 1914–1920 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-11-01 David Bowen
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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The U-Boat War: A global history, 1939–45 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Eric C. Rust
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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The British Navy in Eastern Waters: The Indian and Pacific Oceans The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Andrew Lambert
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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The Etymology and Early History of Skiff: International waters The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-11-01 William Sayers
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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Documents Relating to the Official Dutch Naval Visit to Cherbourg, 8–10 September 1786 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Steve Fraser
This group of letters offers an insight into the value of the Franco-Dutch treaty of cooperation; although only half-finished, the new roadstead at Cherbourg was viewed as the basis of a new combin...
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The Myth of HMS Minden and ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’: Where did it originate? The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Larrie D. Ferreiro
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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Boatlines: Scottish craft of sea, coast and canal The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Marc Chivers
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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The Endurance: Shackleton’s legendary Antarctic expedition The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Michael Leek
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 4, 2023)
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Navalism and Imperial Culture in Spain: The origins and celebration of the Chincha Islands War (1834–1868) The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Rodrigo Escribano Roca, Pablo Andrés Guerrero Oñate
The article examines how the Chincha Islands War led to the consolidation and socialization of Spanish navalism, understood as a language of legitimacy that sought the regeneration of the monarchy through the identification of its citizens with the Real Armada and the consolidation of the latter as a modern instrument of imperial power and international prestige. In the first section we explain how
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Editorial The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Martin Bellamy
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 3, 2023)
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The Marstrand Cannon: The earliest evidence of shipboard artillery in Europe? The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Staffan von Arbin, Kay Douglas Smith, Tobias B. Skowronek
Current knowledge concerning the introduction of shipboard artillery in Europe is limited. A small, muzzle-loading cast copper-alloy gun recovered off Marstrand on the west coast of Sweden may, however, provide some important leads regarding this development. Radiocarbon analysis of a piece of cloth from the powder chamber, possibly the remains of a cartouche, suggests a date for the cannon in the
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The Port of Hugli in Seventeenth-century Bengal The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Kainat Siddiqui
Medieval Bengal occupied a focal position on the map of India due to its unique topography. The province was profusely rich in agricultural and non-agricultural produce as attested in the accounts of many foreign travellers. Satgaon and Chittagong in Bengal were the initial trading centres and custom ports in the sixteenth century. With the decline of the port of Satgaon, Hugli acquired a place of
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The Shipping Interests of the Beckwith Family of Colchester, 1816–1919 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Ian Beckwith, John Collins
This article endeavours to construct the history of the Beckwith family and their various partners in a shipping business which, in various forms, operated out of the port of Colchester from 1816 to 1919. The family’s interests began with Joseph Beckwith, a master mariner on the coastal trade. Through his connections with shipowners, his sons also entered the trade. Benjamin Beckwith was a master mariner
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The Flag-waving Names of Ocean Liners The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Jan Tent
Proper names not only serve as identifiers of people, places and other entities, they may also function as markers of personal and national identity. Eponymous and toponymous names of ships often function as metaphors or metonyms, signifying country or place of origin. During the first half of the twentieth century, ocean liner names became tropes of nationhood, empire, and might, signifying the homeland
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Frederick Leyland: A re-assessment of his background The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Anthony Tibbles
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 3, 2023)
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More than a Dictionary: Nikolaos Kourbellis’s English–Greek Maritime Dictionary The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Rip Bulkeley
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 3, 2023)
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Time to Talk Turkey: The British Naval and German military missions to the Ottoman Empire in 1912–14 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Toby Ewin
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 3, 2023)
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Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the ‘Gloucester’: A true Restoration tragedy The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-08-03 David Bowen
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 3, 2023)
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Military Power and the Dutch Republic: War, trade, and the balance of power in Europe, 1648–1813 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Andrew Lambert
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 3, 2023)
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The Overseas Trade of British America: A narrative history The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Jeremy Land
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 3, 2023)
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Chasing the Bounty: The voyages of the ‘Pandora’ and ‘Matavy’ The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Callum Easton
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 3, 2023)
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Royal Yachts Under Sail The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Derek G. Law
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 3, 2023)
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Elizabeth’s Navy: Seventy years of the postwar Royal Navy The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Edward Hampshire
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 3, 2023)
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Out of the Depths: A history of shipwrecks The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-08-03 David Bowen
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 3, 2023)
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Editorial The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Martin Bellamy Editor
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 2, 2023)
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Ann Savours (1927–2022) The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Pieter van der Merwe Vice-President and Fellow, SNR
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 2, 2023)
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James Goldrick (1958–2023) The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Geoff Till
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 2, 2023)
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In Search of ‘Privileged Traders and Sly Foxes’: The Danish navy’s operations in the North Atlantic in the eighteenth century The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Søren Nørby, Jakob Seerup
In November 1740 a letter arrived in Copenhagen from the Danish naval cadet Hans Hendrik Eller who was clearly frustrated about being held by the Dutch authorities in an Amsterdam prison. Eller gave a thorough account of how he and his crew had suffered a grave injustice and were now unlawfully imprisoned. He ended his letter stating that he and his men intended to leave Amsterdam for Copenhagen as
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‘Annoyed Every Inch of Their Passage’: Admiral Lord Keith’s counter-invasion campaign, May 1803–August 1805 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Martin L. Robson
Defence against invasion is a prime Royal Navy task, but arguably the campaign of 1803 to 1805 has been overshadowed to the point of neglect. Here, Admiral Keith directed a detailed plan of defence which stretched from the harbour of Boulogne to the Thames estuary and encompassed craft from 74-gun ships of the line to oared boats owned and manned by civilian volunteers. This was supported by a network
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Coals and Cables: The remarkable career of MV Dame Caroline Haslett The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Nina Baker
In 1950 Dame Caroline Haslett was accorded the honour of launching a motor collier ship named after her at the shipyard of Hall, Russell and Co., Aberdeen. Coal was the UK’s principal source of energy and colliers were commonplace around UK coasts. If MV Dame Caroline Haslett had remained as one collier amongst many it would not have been sufficiently remarkable to justify further investigation. However
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An Astrolabe from the Wreck of Santiago, 1585 The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Pawel Kardasz
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 109, No. 2, 2023)