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This month’s featured article looks at Grace Darling who, along with her father William, rescued nine of eighteen survivors from the wreck of the S.S. Forfarshire on 7 September 1838.

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

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Masterclass: The Anglo-Dutch Wars at the National Maritime Museum

September 2018

To celebrate the opening of Royal Museum Greenwich’s Tudor and Stuart Seafarers gallery, on 26th October 2018, in a masterclass held at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, historian Rebecca Rideal will explore the Anglo-Dutch Wars. What caused them? What were their political, religious, social and economic repercussions? How did they shape the imperial ambitions […] Read More

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Maritime Art

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