A Royal Navy 28 gun frigate c1794

Maritime history

Pirates burying a treasure chest on a beach as their captain looks on

Stuart

Q&AX marks the spot: did pirates bury their treasure?

A 17th century sketch of a peg-legged pirate walking with the aid of crutches

Stuart

Q&ADid any real pirates wear eyepatches or have peg legs?

Photo of tall ship

Georgian

Q&AWho do we say 'shot across the bows'?

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The Age of Sail: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Admiral Lord Nelson: 10 days that created a legend. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton

20th Century

Ernest Shackleton, the great Antarctic explorer of the Heroic Age

Winston Churchill (left) with Charles de Gaulle, c1944. The British prime minister encouraged Vichy’s colonies to rally to the Free French leader. (Getty Images)

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Operation Ironclad: the WW2 battle for Madagascar. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A French manuscript from c1100 shows Viking warriors sailing to Brittany. The Viking Age touched all areas of life and can still be felt today

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What if...The Vikings had never left their homelands?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Engraving showing flying fish leaping over a Spanish trade ship

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Winds of change: how the discovery of trade winds powered Europe's empires. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Saul David

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Saul David“It was astonishing bravery – and cold-blooded bravery, too”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Boats clash at sea in this illustration of the 480 BC battle of Salamis, fought between a Persian army led by King Xerxes I and the Greek army led by Themistocles

Ancient Greece

Salamis, 480 BC: a horror at sea for the Persian empire

A trieme is rowed towards a naval battle in a scene depicting the battle of Aegospotami in 405 BC

Ancient Greece

The ancient Greeks at war: hoplites, the phalanx and the greatest battles

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“A dead whale or a stove boat”: whaling in the 19th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Allied convoy PQ 17 is attacked by a German torpedo aircraft on its way across the Arctic Ocean, c1942. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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“The worst journey in the world”: the Arctic convoys of the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Spanish Armada: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Special Boat Service: WW2’s silent heroes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of English admiral Lord Horatio Nelson

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Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson: a rebel with a cause

Fridtjof Nansen: Explorer, scientist, writer, humanitarian

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The first great polar expedition: Fridtjof Nansen’s 1888 traverse of the Greenland Ice Sheet. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Titanic: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The battle of Sandwich: England’s medieval Trafalgar. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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QuizHow well do you know your warships?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An aerial view of Tahiti

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Jeanne Baret: the first known woman to circumnavigate the globe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The golden age of piracy: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The crew of SMS King in its home port following the battle of the Skagerrak, June 1916. (Photo by A Renard/ullstein image via Getty Images)

First World War

Jutland: the battle that won the First World War

A 19th-century engraving depicts a member of the crew of the 'Mignonette'

Victorian

Cannibalism at sea: the starving Victorian sailors who ate a cabin boy

The German battleship Bismarck of the German Kriegsmarine during early World War II

Second World War

Bismarck: why was the WW2 German battleship so feared? Plus 9 things you didn’t know about its only mission

Explorer Ferdinand Magellan

Tudor

Dire straits: the story of Ferdinand Magellan's fatal voyage of discovery

A German sailor signals Bismarck during manoeuvres in the western Atlantic, some time before the British gave chase. The maimed battleship sank below the waves on 27 May 1941

Second World War

The sinking of the Bismarck: a cat and mouse chase across the Atlantic

Georgian

Mutiny at sea: the forgotten story of murder and brutality aboard HMS Wager

The exact location at which John Cabot came ashore in North America is the subject of debate. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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A tale of Tudor travel: John Cabot's voyage to America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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