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This month’s featured article looks at Royal Navy frigate numbers in the Mediterranean around the time of the Battle of the Nile and whether Nelson was right to complain.

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Historic Ships

The Society for Nautical Research played a leading role in the preservation of HMS Victory and other historic vessels.

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Talk: The Untold Stories of the Africans who sailed with Francis Drake

August 2018

Join Dr. Miranda Kaufmann for a voyage into Black British History aboard the replica of Sir Francis Drake’s famous ship, the Golden Hinde, in London on 10th Oct 2018. Dr. Miranda Kaufmann, the author of Black Tudors: The Untold Story, will first whisk you away to Panama, where an African man named Diego first met […] Read More

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Maritime Art

The Society for Nautical Research helps to purchase important works of art.