Quick question. The attached drawing of the Vulture (from our local historical society archives) shows Vulture to be 3 masted. Yet I’ve seen references to Vulture being of the “Swan sloop” class.

I am researching James Montgomery, whose 25 August, 1697 Will (proved 24 December, 1697 in Richmond, County of Surrey, England) referred to him as “James Montgomery, of James River in Nantzimum [a/k/a ...

The public announcement of the finding of the Gloucester shipwreck in June 2022 off North Norfolk, originally lost in May 1682, has attracted both national and international attention. This paper ...

This is the extraordinary history of a single ship – a Baltimore clipper. Once she was the Henriqueta, a slave ship; but subsequently she became the Black Joke, a hunter of slave ships. In her former ...

escape helpers, environmental disruptors or repositories of knowledge. One thing is certain: without ships, our world would be different. Because ships move people and goods, ideologies and ...

This episode presents an astonishing and tragic story from the American Civil War with great relevance to the present day. It’s the story of a black boy called David Henry White who comes from ...

Sorry I am so late to this interesting discussion thread about leagers / leaguers but I may have something to add and I’d welcome thoughts as there are things here that I just don’t understand. For ...

A database cataloguing every one of the 5,100 Royal Navy vessel lost in naval service since 1512 is now available to the public. The database has been created by the Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust.

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William George Fairfax became a Vice-Admiral of the Royal Navy in 1810 after a long career that touched on some of the most significant naval events and personalities of the period. He entered the ...

This painting of the Battle of the Texel (1673) was made by Willem van Der Velde the Younger, an extremely gifted painter of maritime scenes (1633-1707) and the son of Willem Van Der Velde (1610-1693) ...