Archive Results For: Other (Twentieth C)
Delayed Adjustment: Economic crisis, political change and state intervention in the Spanish shipbuilding industry, about 1975–1990
This article seeks to explain the impact of the international shipping crisis of the 1970s on the Spanish shipbuilding industry (then the third biggest in Europe after Sweden and Germany) and the responses to the crisis given by the state and by shipyards. It contributes to the literature on the decline of merchant shipbuilding in […] Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Other (Twentieth C)
Subjects include: Shipbuilding & Design
Note: A Statistical Analysis of Scottish-built Ships 1850–2009
A statistical analysis of trends in Scottish ship production from 1850 – 2009 based on data extracted from the British Shipbuilding Database. The data discriminates between merchant ships and warships, construction material, tonnage and propulsion, and is split into Scotland’s three principal shipbuilding regions: Upper Clyde: Rutherglen–Bowling, Lower Clyde: Dumbarton westward and SW and NW […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (Nineteenth C)
Subjects include: Shipbuilding & Design
Note: The Selsey Fishing Fleet
A short history of the West Sussex town of Selsey, its fishing industry and fleet from the sixteenth century to the present day. Read More
Filed under: English Channel | Other (Early Modern) | Other (Twentieth C) | Other (Nineteenth C) | Other (Eighteenth C)
Subjects include: Whaling & Fishing
Danish Modernist Architecture and Furniture Design in Passenger Ship Interiors 1935–1965
Since the 1960s Denmark has become internationally renowned for its architecture and design output. The work of Danish modernist architects and designers working on terra firma is very well known, but very little has been written about their influence on the design of merchant ships. This article examines the manifestation of Danish architectural modernism in […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C)
Subjects include: Ocean Liners & Passenger Craft | Shipbuilding & Design
Mermaids Ashore: The Norwegian Mermaid Association, 1964–1989
This article analyses a sometimes forgotten dimension of maritime history: the lives and challenges of those remaining at home. Based on archival data and interviews, we discuss the establishment, growth, decline and dissolution of the Norwegian Mermaid Association (Norges Havfrueforbund), an organization of seamen’s wives. We place the history of the association in a broader […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C)
Subjects include: Administration | Miscellaneous
Was Arthur Ransome’s John Walker a Competent Seaman?
This note explores the competence of Arthur Ransome’s blundering boy sailor John Walker, in We Didn’t Mean To Go Sea, one of the books of the Swallows and Amazon‘s series, and draws parallels with the authors own life. In We Didn’t Mean To Go Sea, John Walker negotiates a difficult passage from Harwich to Flushing, thereby entering the […] Read More
Filed under: English Channel | Other (Twentieth C)
Subjects include: Biography | Leisure & Small Craft | Ship Handling & Seamanship
How to Defend the Turkish Straits Against the Russians: A century-long ‘Eastern Question’ in British defence planning, 1815–1914
The integrity of the Ottoman Empire was a fundamental concern in nineteenth-century European politics, often referred to as ‘the Eastern Question’. The main military aspect of this question was how Istanbul and the Turkish Straits, namely the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, could be defended against a probable Russian attack by land, sea or both. The […] Read More
Filed under: Mediterranean | Other (Twentieth C) | Other (Nineteenth C)
Subjects include: Strategy & Diplomacy
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