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This month’s free featured article explores the race to the Chesapeake between Destouches and Arbuthnot, March 1781.

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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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Conference: The Falklands War Revisited

May 2022

  Operation Corporate Commemoration Day Saturday 9th July 2022 Royal Maritime Club, 85, Queen Street, Portsea, Portsmouth, PO1 3HS Programme In the South Atlantic autumn of 1982, the Royal Navy had to re-learn skills and improvise solutions to problems that had been thought irrelevant to a Cold War nuclear stand-off. It was an alarmingly close-run […] Read More

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Maritime Art

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