Maritime history

A map showing the Cinque ports

Q&A What are the Cinque Ports?

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Clotilda: the last slave ship to America . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ships in battle on the sea

General Early Modern

When pirates ruled Asia’s waves

A c1943 photograph of USS Indianapolis. Built in New Jersey, the Portland-class heavy cruiser was launched in 1931 (Photo by US Navy/Interim Archives/Getty Images)

Into the jaws of hell: the WW2 sinking of USS Indianapolis

A mermaid combing her hair

General Early Modern

Tails from the deep: separating the real folklore of mermaids from Disney stories

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An engraving of the pirate Henry Avery with his ship in a notorious raid that almost pushed England and India to war (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Hell on high water: the rise and fall of the golden age of piracy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Passengers and crew leap from the Gloucester after the ship is wrecked in 1682, in a contemporary painting by Johan Danckerts (Image by National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London)

The sinking of the Gloucester: the shipwreck that rocked Restoration England . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

HMS Bittern on fire and severely damaged after a German air attack in Namsos fjord, 30 April 1940. Both sides sustained heavy losses in the battle of Norway but the German navy was less able to absorb these than its British foe. (Photo by Topfoto)

Second World War

Narvik in context How battle for Norway in 1940 saved Britain

Illustration of Major Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate

Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate: how a mid-life crisis created the ‘worst pirate of all time’

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Britannia and beyond: a history of royal yachts

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Mary Rose being risen from the sea (Picture by Alamy))

Raising the Mary Rose The quest to save Henry VIII's lost warship . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 6 Protecting the wreck . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 5 The mysterious men on-board . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 4 Inside the Tudor treasure trove . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Portrait of Henry VIII, King of England from 1509-1547

"Hopes and dreams" Why the Mary Rose was so important to Henry VIII . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.