H.M.S. Caroline Autumn Lecture Series
Throughout October and November the National Museum of the Royal Navy’s H.M.S. Caroline will be holding a variety of history lectures in the Pump House visitor centre, which will discuss a broad range of topics about H.M.S. Caroline and the Royal Navy. Booking is required. Tickets cost £5/Concession £3. 4th October: ‘Out Upon […] Read More
Category: Events | Historic Ships
Talk: The Raising of the Mary Rose
Christopher Dobbs, Head of Interpretation and Maritime Archaeology for the Mary Rose Trust will be providing his personal insights and anecdotes on the process of excavating and raising the Mary Rose, one of the largest underwater archaeological excavations in history, at an event at the Mary Rose Muesum in Portsmouth on 10th October 2018. Opening […] Read More
Category: Events | Historic Ships | Archaeology
Talk: The Untold Stories of the Africans who sailed with Francis Drake
Join Dr. Miranda Kaufmann for a voyage into Black British History aboard the replica of Sir Francis Drake’s famous ship, the Golden Hinde, in London on 10th Oct 2018. Dr. Miranda Kaufmann, the author of Black Tudors: The Untold Story, will first whisk you away to Panama, where an African man named Diego first met […] Read More
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Call for Papers: Archaeology Conference “Building a Future for Our Maritime Past”
Category: Events | Historic Ships | Archaeology
The Story of the Mary Rose Galley – Public Talk
The Story of the Mary Rose Galley: Excavating, Raising and Recreating the Ship’s Kitchen on the evening of Wednesday 30th of May 2018 from 18:00 – 20:00. Christopher Dobbs, Head of Interpretation and Maritime Archaeology for the Mary Rose Trust will be discussing how artefacts from the Mary Rose have led the way in building a […] Read More
Category: Events | Historic Ships | Archaeology
New Exhibition at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, New York: “A View From the Deep”
To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the commissioning of U.S.S. Growler, one of the U.S. Navy’s first missile submarines, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York, where U.S.S. Growler now resides as an exhibit, is opening a new exhibition called “A View from the Deep“, chronicling Growler’s Cold War history, from inception […] Read More
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New Look at the Project to Build a Replica of the 17thC Warship Lenox
Category: Historic Ships | Maritime Heritage
Appeal Launched for the Restoration of Historic D-Day landing Craft LCT7074
The National Museum of the Royal Navy is working with the D-Day Museum to save one of the last surviving Second World War, D-Day Landing Craft Tank, LCT 7074. Landing Craft Tanks were capable of carrying ten tanks or other heavy armoured vehicles into battle. LCT 7074 is one of the last of these vital […] Read More
Category: Historic Ships
Call for Volunteers to Help Restore the Replica Golden Hinde
The Golden Hinde is a full-size replica of Sir Francis Drake’s 16th century galleon, the first English ship to circumnavigate the world. Constructed using traditional materials and methods, she launched in 1973 and has sailed further than the original before settling in her current home in Bankside, London since 1996. For over 30 years she […] Read More
Category: Volunteering | Historic Ships | Maritime Heritage
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