Archive Results For: Other (Twentieth C)
Note: The Promotion of David Beatty to Rear-Admiral
An interpretive reading by a management and organizational history scholar of what kind of forces were at play behind the exceptional promotion of David Beatty to rear-admiral on 1 January 1910. This note aims to provide more nuanced considerations both of the question of why Beatty was promoted and to a lesser extent of who were the […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C)
Subjects include: Administration | Navies
Obituary: Ray Ernest Sutcliffe (1940-2018)
The wide and varied interests of a pioneer of the filming of maritime archaeology. Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Biography
Obituary: Lewis Ross Fischer (1946-2018)
The considerable contribution to maritime history. Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Biography
Note: War Course Attendance at Greenwich from 1900 to 1904
A ‘war course’ was taught to naval officers at Greenwich from 1900 to 1914, and this note lists the officers who attended between 1900 and 1904. Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Administration
Linguistic Facts as a Reflection of Changes in Seafaring: Is a ship still a ‘she’?
Linguistic facts reflect a lot about the world. There is an inherent linguistic and pragmatic belief that ships are feminine. The fact that the third-person pronoun ‘she’ is used when reference is made to a ship has become an unquestionable language fact in seafaring. Yet changes in the modern world and shipping, which has been […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Miscellaneous
Obituary: Countess Mountbatten of Burma CD, DL (1924-2017)
The contribution of the Countess Mountbatten of Burma and her family to the Society. Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Biography
Obituary: John Pennington Bethell (1925-2017)
The contribution of John Bethell to research through a long and varied career. Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Biography
Obituary: Richard Hill (1929-2017)
The contribution of Richard Hill to the navy and naval affairs. Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Biography
The Battle of Jutland’s Heritage Under Threat: Commercial salvage on the shipwrecks as observed 2000 to 2016
This paper presents the most recent ndings up to August 2016 of the extent to which the shipwrecks from the battle of Jutland have been exposed to salvage for metals. Commercial salvage of the wrecks is not new and archival research has traced salvage activity as far back as 1960. However over the last 15 […] Read More
Filed under: North Sea | Other (Twentieth C) | Shipwrecks
Subjects include: Miscellaneous | Navies
Obituary: Richard Oliver Goss (1929-2017)
The contribution to maritime economics and the Nautical Institute, of the editor of Maritime Policy and Management. Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Biography