The post Lighthouses and Lightvessels appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2023-11-28
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The post Lighthouses and Lightvessels appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2023-11-28
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Trans and gender-diverse people people who take testosterone face a risk of blood thickening, but the largest study to date in the U.S. suggests that this side effect is rare....
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Published on: 2023-11-27
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The post Forgotten Wrecks: Hospital Ships Anglia and Asturias appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2023-11-23
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This booklet, produced during the Forgotten Wrecks of the First World War project, presents the Hollybook Memorial in Southampton. This memorial commemorates thsoe lost at sea from the land and air forces and those who have no known resting place. The post Forgotten Wrecks: The Hollybook Memorial appeared first on...
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Published on: 2023-11-23
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This booklet, produced during the Forgotten Wrecks of the First World War project, focuses on some of the vessels lost in the Dover Straights during the First World War. The post Forgotten Wrecks: Great War Shipwrecks of the Channel Crossing appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2023-11-23
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This booklet, produced during the Forgotten Wrecks of the First World War project, delves into the lives of 'lascar' sailors aboard vessels and their contribution to the First World War. The post Forgotten Wrecks: Black and Asian Seamen appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2023-11-23
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This leaflet maps out some of the archaeological sites along the River Hamble, including hulks and the remains of jetties, docks, and quays. The post The Archaeology of the River Hamble Leaflet appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2023-11-23
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This leaflet explores the history of Fort Victoria on the Isle of Wight. Built in the 1850s, it is the West Wight's oldest coastal defence. The post Fort Victoria Leaflet appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2023-11-23
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This leaflet offers a suggested walking route to explore the West Wight's costal defences. The post Walk the Forts Leaflet appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2023-11-23
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The post A Decade of Diving, Delving & Disseminating appeared first on Maritime Archaeology Trust....
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Published on: 2023-11-23
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Australian archaeologists say discovery of a pump well and section of bow strengthens theory that wreckage in Newport Harbour, Rhode Island is famous vesselFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralian maritime scientists have doubled down on...
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Published on: 2023-11-23
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Bronze coins dating from fourth century are in exceptional state of preservation, Italy’s culture ministry saysAn Italian diver’s sighting of something metallic near the coast of Sardinia has led to the discovery of tens of thousands of Roman bronze coins, Italy’s culture ministry has said.After the man alerted the authorities,...
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Published on: 2023-11-06
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It is estimated that there have been 3 million shipwrecks spanning a period of 4,000 years, and that only 1 per cent have been discovered, mostly over the last 60 years. Can this author, or any author indeed, relate ‘their significance and … the developments over the last sixty years that have...
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Published on: 2023-08-16
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China’s threat has, perhaps, been over mentioned in academia and so finding a pioneering approach could prove challenging. Isaac Kardon has successfully proved his prominence with this intensive empirical book through a unique perspective which focuses on China’s revisioning agenda in the law of the sea. Kardon has designed an...
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Published on: 2023-08-16
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This handsome book has been published following the death of Queen Elizabeth II and sets out to describe the Royal Navy during the 70 years of her reign both visually and in words. It is arranged chronologically, with each chapter broadly covering a decade. The first part of every chapter...
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Published on: 2023-08-16
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Brian Lavery is one of our most distinguished naval historians and a new book from him therefore comes with a great burden of expectation. And that expectation is wholly met in this case. This is a large-sized book packed with well over 100 beautifully reproduced illustrations which can only be...
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Published on: 2023-08-16
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In this lively and engaging book, Donald A. Maxton draws welcome attention to the oft-forgotten postscript to the infamous Bounty mutiny and clearly conveys that, in terms of drama, peril, and human endurance, the ordeal of the men of the Pandora and Matavy rivals anything faced by Captain Bligh, Fletcher...
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Published on: 2023-08-16
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Building on the foundation of his long career of studying colonial North American trade and its economy, Thomas Truxes provides a sweeping, long-run narrative of the maritime trade of British America up until the advent of independence for the United States of America. Looking to explicate the origins, development, and...
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Published on: 2023-08-16
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This important book follows the first volume of the series, The Eighty Years War: From revolt to regular war, 1568–1648 of 2019, reviewed here in 2021. Written at the Netherlands Institute for Military History, it has been expertly translated by Paul Arblaster and Lee Preedy. The editorial board’s decision to...
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Published on: 2023-08-16
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The North Sea is a shallow but unforgiving sea, susceptible to violent and unpredictable weather, poor visibility, and beset with shifting shallows, nowhere more so than the vicinity of the North Norfolk Sandbanks and particularly the inner two called the Leman and the Ower. Dawn on 6 May 1682 revealed...
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Published on: 2023-08-16
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From December 1908 until autumn 1914, the British Naval Mission to the Ottoman empire worked ‘strenuously, though for the most part futilely’ to encourage improvements in their host’s navy.Footnote1 The officers in charge of this mission were in turn Rear-Admirals Douglas Gamble (1909–10), Hugh Pigot Williams (1910– 12) and Arthur...
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Published on: 2023-08-14
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Some years ago I was browsing in the foreign languages section of an Oxfam Bookshop when, despite the fact that my knowledge of Greek stops short at the time of Pericles rather than that of Cavafy or Kazantzakis, my attention was caught by a copy of Nikolaos Kourbellis’ English–Greek Maritime...
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Published on: 2023-08-14
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