The post MAT’s 9th Maritime-Themed Crossword appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2024-09-11
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Coins and the Sea podcast Listen to experts from the maritime heritage world talk about coins and the sea Listen here Scuttled, podcast about canal boat life Listen here A history of the world in twelve shipwrecks - David Gibbins in conversation with Martin Kemp 15 September 3:15pm, Bideford, Devon...
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Published on: 2024-09-05
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2024 Sept 05 16th Century soldier's skeleton discovered at the bottom of Lake Asveja in Lithuania. Discovery of submerged bridge built by ancient humans rewrites Mediterranean island's history Remains of 144-year-old shipwreck rest in 3 feet of water in Lake Huron Archaeologists discover stunning find hidden below Nile waters Secrets...
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Published on: 2024-09-05
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Banner image: A conger eel making its home in bronze cannon No.4 © James Clark A previously unknown Protected Wreck off the coast of Sussex has now been identified as the 17th century Dutch warship Klein Hollandia. Built in 1654 and owned by the Admiralty of Rotterdam, the ship was...
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Published on: 2024-09-04
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As a member you need to login to the Membership Portal in order to access the online IJNA content Login to the Membership Portal here If you are not a member and want the IJNA you can join us following the same link ------- About the IJNA The International Journal of...
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Published on: 2024-08-27
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Scholarly history books on a thematic subject are often collected biographies of every personality who happened to interact with the theme, or a chronology of the world seen through the prism of an academic’s private passion. An example of the latter might be Mark Kurlansky’s Cod: A biography of the...
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Published on: 2024-08-24
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This book compiles a sampling of talks given at a Maritime Animals Conference held in the spring of 2019 at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, and also includes additional essays. The conference itself sought to expand upon a 2004 book published by the same museum called Animals at Sea,...
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Published on: 2024-08-24
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The Clyde puffer has won the hearts and minds of many, especially Scots, many of whom are familiar with the stories of Neil Munro, and the television films based on a reincarnation of Para Handy and his ‘Vital Spark’. The puffer is also small enough to be a practical preservation...
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Published on: 2024-08-24
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This is an important anthology that takes a scholarly approach to African navies by looking at historical and contemporary issues. Filling a gap in the understudied scholarship about African navies, this book brings together a group of international authors who focus on the colonial, Cold War and post-Cold War periods....
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Published on: 2024-08-24
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In 1939 Norway, then a country of 3 million people, had the world’s fourth-largest fleet of merchant ships, over 1,000 of which they put at the disposal of the Allies during the Second World War to transport 145 million tons of cargo. Thirty-three thousand crew, mainly Norwegian, joined in this...
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Published on: 2024-08-24
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When the world learned in 1974 that British code-breakers at Bletchley Park had been reading radio messages enciphered with Germany’s Enigma machines for most of the Second World War, accounts of the war at sea published prior to that revelation had to be amended or rewritten entirely. While the overall...
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Published on: 2024-08-24
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To refer to Appleton Oaksmith as a real-life Forest Gump may be to over-simplify much of his life and times. Yet, as Johnathan White contends, Oaksmith was present and entangled in many significant moments of American history in the nineteenth century. It is these entanglements that White uses as an...
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Published on: 2024-08-24
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Shetland salt cured fish is the key theme to this book, which is principally about the nineteenth century cod and herring fishing enterprises that were prosecuted in completely different ways, but in very similar social and economic circumstances. This is not an academic book in the true sense of the...
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Published on: 2024-08-24
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Much has been written about convoys during the First and Second World Wars. Excepting some rare and passing comments, which often imply that the interpretation of the word ‘convoy’ is based on our understanding from the First World War, little has been written about convoys prior to the twentieth century....
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Published on: 2024-08-24
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Next article In this intriguing new book, John McAleer shines a spotlight on the Atlantic leg of outbound voyages from Britain to Asia. Drawing on the accounts left by passengers on board the EIC’s East Indiamen vessels from the eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, he presents the ship as a...
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Published on: 2024-08-24
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Underwater Archaeologist Mizen Archaeology Limited Kinsale, Ireland Deadline 2nd September 2024 Details here SNR Educational Grants in Maritime Heritage Fours deadlines in the year Details here Director of Heritage, Queensland Government Australia Apply by 22 August Details here Naval, Maritime and Coastal History MA University of Portsmouth Details here Senior...
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Published on: 2024-08-22
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The post The Metal Hulled Sailing Vessels project: the Charlwood and Kate Thomas appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2024-08-20
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Published on: 2024-07-30
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Find out what a group of college students did for their placement at MAT! The post Developing Design: Work Placement at MAT appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2024-07-22
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The post MAT’s 8th Maritime-Themed Crossword : Crossword with a Difference! appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2024-06-11
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The post 80th Anniversary of D-Day: Southampton’s Key Role appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2024-06-05
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Blogs on ship's stories and their wreckage. The post Blogs on ship’s stories appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Blogs on ship's stories and their wreckage. The post Blogs on ship’s stories appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2024-06-05
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Explore various maritime-themed topics. The post Maritime-themed blogs appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2024-06-05
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Find out more about MAT's work in the filed of maritime archaeology. The post Blogs on MAT’s work appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2024-06-03
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Wednesday March 13th - 8am Thursday April 11th - 8:30am Friday May 10th - 8am Wednesday July 24th - 8:30am Friday August 23rd - 9am Saturday September 21st - 8:30am Saturday October 19th - 7:30am...
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Published on: 2023-12-25
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Friday 15th December 2023 – Wednesday 3rd January 2024 Daily 10.30am – 4pm We will be closed for Christmas on 24th, 25th and 26th December 2023...
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Published on: 2023-12-09
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