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The golden age of piracy: everything you wanted to know
First World War
Jutland: the battle that won the First World War
Victorian
Cannibalism at sea: the starving Victorian sailors who ate a cabin boy
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Second World War
Bismarck: why was the WW2 German battleship so feared? Plus 9 things you didn’t know about its only mission
Tudor
Dire straits: the story of Ferdinand Magellan’s fatal voyage of discovery
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
Tudor
A tale of Tudor travel: John Cabot’s voyage to America
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Q&A
When was the Union Jack or Union flag created?
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Victorian
The mystery of the vanishing lighthouse keepers
Victorian
What happened to the Franklin Expedition? The real mystery behind
The Terror
Tudor
Grace O’Malley: the fearless pirate queen of Ireland
Victorian
The Franklin Expedition: what happened on the ill-fated Victorian voyage?
Norman
The shipwreck that sunk a royal dynasty
Georgian
A brief history of sea shanties
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