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This month’s featured article looks at the training and education of Elizabethan sailors.

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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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Mary Rose Trust Anniversary Lectures

September 2017

Built between 1509 and 1511, the Mary Rose was one of the first ships able to fire a broadside, and was a firm favourite of King Henry VIII. After a long and successful career, she sank accidentally during an engagement with the French fleet in 1545. Her rediscovery and raising were seminal events in the […] Read More

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Maritime Art

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