It is a remarkable fact, as the authors note in the introduction to this admirable monograph, that no full-scale general survey of the British Civil Wars at sea has been published since the early 1...

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This article examines how the archaeological record of 33 U-boats sunk in the English Channel during the Inshore Campaign, June 1944 to May 1945, compares with the assessment of U-boat destructions made by the Admiralty’s Anti U-boat Division (AUBD) in 1946. Comparison ...

John Rae was a surgeon from the Orkney Islands, an employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and an important nineteenth-century Arctic explorer. He is probably most famous for being the person who fir...

This article seeks to explain the impact of the international shipping crisis of the 1970s on the Spanish shipbuilding industry (then the third biggest in Europe after Sweden and Germany) and the r...

The German High Seas Fleet’s sorties in strength after the battle of Jutland were few and inconclusive, but as a ‘fleet in being’ it remained a powerful threat. Britain’s Admiralty, alive to the ta...