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This month’s free featured article explores the first crossing of the Atlantic by an ironclad warship, in September 1862.

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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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September 2020

  Call for Manuscripts: The Materiality of Sino-Foreign Maritime Cultural Exchange To date, the earliest known evidence of Sino-Foreign Maritime Cultural Exchange remains from the Han Dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE) voyages of Emperor Wu’s envoys to Southeast Asia in 111 BCE.1 In the intervening 2,000 years, the sea routes which facilitated this contact, […] Read More

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Maritime Art

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