Maritime history

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Pod Claire Jowitt WL

Discovering a lost royal battleship . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victoria Drummond, Britain's first female marine engineer. Also seen is her ancestral home, Megginch Castle; a Second World War Allied convoy; Mount Etna, which she encountered on one voyage; and a Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery at Sea, similar to the one that Drummond received in 1941

Victoria Drummond: trailblazing ship’s engineer and war hero

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Second World War

Midway: why America won the WW2 naval battle . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Passengers on first class deck of the 'TItanic'. Advertising poster, 1911-1912. (Photo by Roger Viollet via Getty Images)

Quiz How much do you know about Titanic?

An illustration of a Soviet warship inside a Pepsi bottle

Q&A Is it true that Pepsi briefly owned Soviet warships?

Robert Ballard with an image of Titanic’s upper deck

Titanic When & where was the wreck finally discovered?

Newspaper boy with news of the Titanic disaster, 14 April 1912

Titanic What happened after the sinking?

A depiction of Titanic’s final moments, as the ship sinks and passengers watch from a lifeboat

Titanic When did it sink & how long did it take?

US socialite Margaret Brown, who posthumously became known as the ‘Unsinkable Molly Brown’ following her Titanic experiences.

Titanic 8 stories of passengers who sailed on the liner

Titanic in dry doc before it was launched

Titanic When and how was the ship built?

A vintage photo of the RMS Titantic departing Southampton on 10 April 1912

Your history guide to RMS Titanic, plus 12 fascinating facts about the disaster

A painting of the Coniston, a ship that befell tragedy

General History

Q&A What is the greatest mishap caused by someone not realising the clocks had moved forward or back?

Illustration of Major Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate

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

PM6241 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES Seemingly led by the skeletal figurehead, Blackbeard's sinister ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, at full sail on the open seas.

Queen Anne’s Revenge: why was Blackbeard’s flagship named after the Stuart queen?

Blackbeard, real name Edward Teach, seen standing on a dock with fuses in his beard

Blackbeard: dastardly sea-devil or kind pirate?