DiverCity Programme Inspiring Our Future Ocean Guardians ------- Over £7,000 raised by the BigGive Christmas Challenge 2024 Following our amazing fundraising campaign last year, raising money to Save The London shipwreck, in 2024 we took part in the incredible opportunity presented by the BigGive Christmas Challenge. The December Challenge week...
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Published on: 2025-04-22
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Nautical Archaeology Society
Solicitor who became a shipwreck explorer keen to bring out the human stories that his discoveries revealedIn 1967, Rex Cowan, who has died aged 97, visited the Isles of Scilly. There he saw divers exploring HMS Association, a warship that had sunk in 1707. He had already left his unsatisfying...
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Published on: 2025-04-21
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The Guardian Archaeology
Our Education Manager Peta Knott recently had a whirlwind trip to a Potentially Polluting Wrecks workshop in Malta where she promoted our new citizen science project and made many new useful connections. Keep reading to find out more... At the beginning of March, I was caught up in a whirlwind...
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Published on: 2025-04-10
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Nautical Archaeology Society
2025 April 10 3D scans of Titanic wreckage reveal new details about fateful ship’s final moments Stone Age hunter-gatherers may have been surprisingly skilled seafarers From pixels to pasts: uncovering the value of shipwrecks through social media 2025 April 3 The toxic oil threat of Chuuk Lagoon's Ghost Fleet Tragic...
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Published on: 2025-04-10
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Nautical Archaeology Society
Pirates Exhibiton National Maritime Museum, Greenwich Details here History Underwater: Preserving Undersea Heritage. Free online session Wednesday, May 21 at 2 p.m. ET Details here Hull Maritime Walking tours Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays Details here The Titanic Epilogue: New York City After the Great Sinking' Webinar Part of the New York...
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Published on: 2025-04-10
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Nautical Archaeology Society
The post MAT’s 11th Maritime-Themed Crossword appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2025-03-25
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The post Bude’s Barnabas Stanlake Shazell & the Joseph and Thomas appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2025-03-25
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The fifteenth edition of the illustrated annual provides a fresh assessment of navies, new ships, and advanced technology. The impact of the title spread, HMS Glasgow floating out in November 2022, is somewhat undermined by a projected entry into service date of 2028. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and closer...
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Published on: 2025-03-11
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snr.org.uk
HMS Warspite was a much-loved battleship. The seventh of that name, she served with distinction in both World Wars, earning a record number of fifteen battle honours ranging from the battle of Jutland in 1916 to the Walcheren landings as the Second World War came to an end. Affectionately known...
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Published on: 2025-03-11
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The ‘Golden Years’ in this book’s title almost mirrors the ‘Long Boom’ in international trade ended by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil embargo of 1973–4 which quadrupled the price of a barrel of crude oil and sank many Western economies into recession. Beginning with the completion of...
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Published on: 2025-03-11
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This is an excellent and comprehensive account of the activities of members of the Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve, which was set up by the Admiralty in 1936. The book is not a bald description of one military organisation between 1939 and 1945. Jones approaches the subject through the framework...
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Published on: 2025-03-11
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If in our days the Ukrainian navy employs sea drones to locate, surprise, damage and even sink units of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, the idea behind such weapons and techniques stretches back centuries in the annals of western naval warfare. In 1588 the Spanish Armada under the duke of Medina...
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Published on: 2025-03-05
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On Warmer Tides describes the genesis and activities of Italy’s First World War naval ‘commandos’. It is replete with glossy paper and a professional layout, alongside 25 high-quality photographs and nine maps. First-time author Matthew C. Hall, who specializes in military affairs and strategic studies, found ‘the animus for the...
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Published on: 2025-03-05
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Nicholas A. Lambert has made a timely and important contribution to the historiography of Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914). Through careful research, he has created a detailed reexamination of Mahan’s many books and articles and concluded with thoughts that differ from earlier scholars. For Lambert, Mahan is much more than...
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Published on: 2025-03-05
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In order to understand some of the key issues of nineteenth-century maritime history, Leonardo Scavino’s study of the maritime community of Camogli in Liguria and its trajectory from a small fishing village to the rank of the fifteenth world shipping centre in 1881 is an excellent book to start with....
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Published on: 2025-03-05
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For anyone who knows and loves Hong Kong, this is a marvellous book, full of colourful characters and their often equally colourful stories. It quite certainly introduces us not only to a different and under-appreciated perspective, that of Hong Kong’s many minority non-Chinese and non-Western communities, but also to much...
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Published on: 2025-02-28
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While Joseph Mallard William Turner made a beautiful, atmospheric moonlit study in oils of Newcastle keels working the Tyne in 1835 (Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight, in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington dc), compared to other types of British working boats, very little has been...
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Published on: 2025-02-28
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The post In Search of the Miura, Lost off Stanbury Mouth appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2025-02-25
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The post Belem – Bude and Beyond appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2025-01-30
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The post Stories Behind The Slides appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2025-01-29
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The post Maritime History at Christmas appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2024-12-19
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The post MAT’s 10th Maritime-Themed Crossword appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2024-12-16
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The post Stone Tools at Bouldnor Cliff appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2024-11-28
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The post Civilian Ships in the First World War appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2024-11-26
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The post Diving at Bouldnor Cliff appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2024-10-24
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