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Published on: 2025-02-08
The NAS curriculum starts with an Introduction to Foreshore and Underwater Archaeology.  This is a one day course introducing the student to some of the basic concepts of underwater archaeology - what archaeology is and how it can apply to the underwater environment.  Contact your local Training Partner to enquire... Read more
Published on: 2025-02-08
An introduction to maritime archaeology that includes at least 4 hours of classroom work in addition to practical work underwater and/or on land. The Part I course is a general introduction to maritime archaeology which focuses on aspects such as pre-disturbance, or in other words, non-intrusive surveys of shipwreck sites.... Read more
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First a cautionary note. Readers should not confuse this non-fictional account of the battle of Midway with Kevin Miller’s 2020 novel by the same title and on the same subject. Both works employ the imagery of a silver waterfall to mark the moment when carrier-launched American Dauntless dive bombers (SBDs)... Read more
Published on: 2024-11-18
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Aptly titled, Nimitz at War is a thorough account of the war in the Pacific from the perspective of the victorious commander, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Exhaustively researched and clearly written, this wartime portrait promptly places the reader in Nimitz’s black leather shoes, from taking command of the Pacific... Read more
Published on: 2024-11-18
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There is no perfect way to tell the interrelated stories of several battleships, all built in Britain but intended for customer navies involved in very different international rivalries. And only to tell those specific ship histories would limit our understanding of the wider context of their time. The widespread construction... Read more
Published on: 2024-11-18
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In 1840 the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company inaugurated a mail service from England to Alexandria that was then extended onwards from Suez to Ceylon, Madras and Calcutta. The transfer between Alexandria and Suez was accomplished over land and thus the ‘overland’ route from England to India was born.... Read more
Published on: 2024-11-18
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In an impressive, readable study John Harris explains how the United States slave trade expanded in the decade before the Civil War and ended abruptly. Though Congress banned the traffic in 1808 and made slaving a capital offense in 1820, merchants based in the United States invested in many of... Read more
Published on: 2024-11-18
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Claude Berube, a former US naval officer and instructor at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, argues in this much-needed (and lavishly-researched) study of the late 1820s–1830s that the seventh US President helped America’s navy develop ‘a global strategy to respond to crises, act as a deterrent, and protect growing American... Read more
Published on: 2024-11-18
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Scholars of Polynesian history, culture or language will welcome the Hakluyt Society’s critical edition of William Mariner’s An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It probably will remain the definitive edition of this important work. William Mariner, a castaway on Tonga from 1806... Read more
Published on: 2024-11-18
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Naval ships approaching Portsmouth from the west had to make a decision as they approached the Isle of Wight: whether to navigate the Western Solent passage or to leave the Needles to port and sail round the southern coast of the Island. The Western Solent is the shorter and more... Read more
Published on: 2024-11-18
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In the opening pages Karel Davids makes the aims of his book crystal clear. He wishes to bring global, maritime and economic histories together to provide a plug for the ‘blue hole’ currently present in the scholarship surrounding global history. To do this, he uses a neat structure throughout the... Read more
Published on: 2024-11-18
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The Solebay Tapestries: Threads of History is the first in a new series of short publications which introduce and contextualize objects within the collection of Het Scheepvaartmuseum, the national maritime museum of the Netherlands, located in Amsterdam. The subject of this excellent little volume, authored by Tim Streefkerk, are two... Read more
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