Archive Results For: Other (Twentieth C)
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
Obituary: John Reynolds
The contribution to historic buildings by an ex-mariner turned architect. Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Biography
Obituary: John Armstrong (1944–2017)
The contribution to maritime history by the author and lecturer. Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Biography
Obituary: David Malyon Page (1929-2016)
A tribute to a friend and colleague. Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Biography
‘We Are a Modern Navy’: Abolishing the Royal Navy’s rum ration
The Royal Navy’s daily ration of free rum to sailors was abolished in 1970. Abolition was never justi ed on cost grounds, unlike so many other British defence decisions. Rather, rum was no longer in keeping with a navy of guided missiles and sensitive electronics. The decision was nevertheless many years in the making. The […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Manpower & Life at Sea | Navies
Obituary: Martyn Heighton (1947-2016)
A tribute to a friend and colleague Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Biography
Marstal Maritime Museum
The Maritime Museum at Marstal displays the ancient and unchanged connection between this island and its environment. Read More
Filed under: North Sea | Other (Twentieth C)
Subjects include: Harbours & Dockyards | Historic Vessels, Museums & Restoration | Merchant Marines
At War with the Navy
The small ships taken up by the Australian navy were of small account to the navy but of far more importance to their owners. These case studies reveal the local implications of such dealings. Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Pacific
Subjects include: Leisure & Small Craft
Note: Marstal Maritime Museum
The opening of a new museum at Marstal is welcomed. The archive of models, ship portraits, marine and navigation gear will now be housed in more spacious surroundings, allowing the centuries of marine activity here to be properly documented. Read More
Filed under: North Sea | Other (Twentieth C)
Subjects include: Historic Vessels, Museums & Restoration