November 2, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Also for #MaritimeHistory
The Golden Age of Piracy wasn’t all buried treasure and wooden ships. Discover the ruthless legends, daring raids, and real history behind one of the most fascinating eras on the high seas.
www.patlubeck.com/golden-age-o...
#Pirates #GoldenAgeOfPiracy #PirateHistory #History
www.patlubeck.com/golden-age-o...
#Pirates #GoldenAgeOfPiracy #PirateHistory #History
Golden Age of Piracy: History, Pirates & True Stories - Patricia Lubeck
Explore the Golden Age of Piracy, including famous pirates, shipboard life, major raids, pirate havens, treasure legends, and its decline.
www.patlubeck.com
November 2, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Also for #MaritimeHistory
We are delighted to have Angela McShane present her paper ‘What should we do with drunken sailors? The conflicted politics of drink and drunkenness in the Royal Navy, c.1660-1689’ at our seminar Wed 4/11 17:30-19:00
👎 Register to attend either in person or online
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
👎 Register to attend either in person or online
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
‘What should we do with drunken sailors? The conflicted politics of drink and drunkenness in the Royal Navy, c.1660-1689.’
www.history.ac.uk
October 30, 2026 at 11:38 AM
1/30 Look under the stern of any ship and you find two things that took thousands of years to get right: the rudder that steers her and the propeller that drives her. One began as an oar held over the side. The other began as a pump for lifting water. #maritimehistory
November 2, 2026 at 9:12 AM
1/30 Look under the stern of any ship and you find two things that took thousands of years to get right: the rudder that steers her and the propeller that drives her. One began as an oar held over the side. The other began as a pump for lifting water. #maritimehistory
What was a "Black Inferno" (Ottoman Turkish: Kara Cehennem)?
It was the name of a particular Maltese warship given by the Ottomans! A 🧵
Image: commons.wikimedia
#MaritimeHistory
It was the name of a particular Maltese warship given by the Ottomans! A 🧵
Image: commons.wikimedia
#MaritimeHistory
November 4, 2026 at 8:04 PM
What was a "Black Inferno" (Ottoman Turkish: Kara Cehennem)?
It was the name of a particular Maltese warship given by the Ottomans! A 🧵
Image: commons.wikimedia
#MaritimeHistory
It was the name of a particular Maltese warship given by the Ottomans! A 🧵
Image: commons.wikimedia
#MaritimeHistory
Rare Medieval Warship Wreck Investigated in Sweden www.medievalists.net/2026/11/rare... #Sweden #archaeology #maritimehistory
Rare Medieval Warship Wreck Investigated in Sweden - Medievalists.net
Archaeologists in Sweden uncover new details of a rare 500-year-old medieval shipwreck, including its kitchen, rigging and unusual mast construction.
www.medievalists.net
November 4, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Rare Medieval Warship Wreck Investigated in Sweden www.medievalists.net/2026/11/rare... #Sweden #archaeology #maritimehistory
I used to think that Ottoman historical names always the same (in the documents), until I read a list of Greek, Genoese/Venetian names in an 18th-c. Ottoman document.
It's about individuals, most likely rowers, deployed either on the galleys or at the Naval Arsenal.
#MaritimeHistory #oarsmen
It's about individuals, most likely rowers, deployed either on the galleys or at the Naval Arsenal.
#MaritimeHistory #oarsmen
November 2, 2026 at 5:18 PM
I used to think that Ottoman historical names always the same (in the documents), until I read a list of Greek, Genoese/Venetian names in an 18th-c. Ottoman document.
It's about individuals, most likely rowers, deployed either on the galleys or at the Naval Arsenal.
#MaritimeHistory #oarsmen
It's about individuals, most likely rowers, deployed either on the galleys or at the Naval Arsenal.
#MaritimeHistory #oarsmen
HMS Hibernia was a King Edward VII-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy. On 4 May 1912 a Short S.27 seaplane took off from a flying-off platform. This was the first launch of an aeroplane from a warship underway www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... #maritimehistory #NavalHistory
November 2, 2026 at 8:31 PM
HMS Hibernia was a King Edward VII-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy. On 4 May 1912 a Short S.27 seaplane took off from a flying-off platform. This was the first launch of an aeroplane from a warship underway www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... #maritimehistory #NavalHistory
Some of the paintings I've made of sailing ships, spanning the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The full portfolio, including the stories behind them and close up photos, can be found on the Age of Sail gallery on my website.
#AgeOfSail #MaritimeHistory #MarineArt #OilPainting #captaincook #art
The full portfolio, including the stories behind them and close up photos, can be found on the Age of Sail gallery on my website.
#AgeOfSail #MaritimeHistory #MarineArt #OilPainting #captaincook #art
November 1, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Some of the paintings I've made of sailing ships, spanning the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The full portfolio, including the stories behind them and close up photos, can be found on the Age of Sail gallery on my website.
#AgeOfSail #MaritimeHistory #MarineArt #OilPainting #captaincook #art
The full portfolio, including the stories behind them and close up photos, can be found on the Age of Sail gallery on my website.
#AgeOfSail #MaritimeHistory #MarineArt #OilPainting #captaincook #art
Today on ABC Hobart radio: I joined Prof. Maxwell-Stewart to talk about my new project on letters from HMS Calcutta, the Prize Papers, and my search for descendants in Australia. Bringing voices from the past into the present, one letter at a time! #earlymodern #convict #history #maritimehistory
November 4, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Today on ABC Hobart radio: I joined Prof. Maxwell-Stewart to talk about my new project on letters from HMS Calcutta, the Prize Papers, and my search for descendants in Australia. Bringing voices from the past into the present, one letter at a time! #earlymodern #convict #history #maritimehistory
I know I try to avoid Oxfam these days but ‘buy 3 get 30% off’ meant I could epic savings on these Royal Navy tomes so I did… 🇬🇧 🌊 📚 #histbookchat #maritimehistory
October 31, 2026 at 8:56 AM
I know I try to avoid Oxfam these days but ‘buy 3 get 30% off’ meant I could epic savings on these Royal Navy tomes so I did… 🇬🇧 🌊 📚 #histbookchat #maritimehistory
This black and white postcard depicts Lime Rock Light at a distance from an adjacent hill, showing the buildings and a nearby dock with a small boat moored. Printed in the lower margin text reads: "Lime Rock Light (Ida Lewis)." #MaritimeHistory
November 3, 2026 at 5:34 PM
This black and white postcard depicts Lime Rock Light at a distance from an adjacent hill, showing the buildings and a nearby dock with a small boat moored. Printed in the lower margin text reads: "Lime Rock Light (Ida Lewis)." #MaritimeHistory
Join SSHSA Education Director Aimee Bachari and the Historical Collections of the Great Lakes Archivist Mark Sprang to reflect on last year's 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Listen to episode 23 at shiphistory.org/radio/.
#MaritimeHistory
#MaritimeHistory
November 2, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Join SSHSA Education Director Aimee Bachari and the Historical Collections of the Great Lakes Archivist Mark Sprang to reflect on last year's 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Listen to episode 23 at shiphistory.org/radio/.
#MaritimeHistory
#MaritimeHistory
This is still an insightful study:
Eight Thousand Years of Maltese Maritime History: Trade, Piracy, and Naval Warfare in the Central Mediterranean, by Ayse Devrim Atauz. University Press of Florida, 2008
👉https://academic.oup.com/florida-scholarship-online/book/29055
#MaritimeHistory #Maltese
Eight Thousand Years of Maltese Maritime History: Trade, Piracy, and Naval Warfare in the Central Mediterranean, by Ayse Devrim Atauz. University Press of Florida, 2008
👉https://academic.oup.com/florida-scholarship-online/book/29055
#MaritimeHistory #Maltese
November 4, 2026 at 6:53 PM
This is still an insightful study:
Eight Thousand Years of Maltese Maritime History: Trade, Piracy, and Naval Warfare in the Central Mediterranean, by Ayse Devrim Atauz. University Press of Florida, 2008
👉https://academic.oup.com/florida-scholarship-online/book/29055
#MaritimeHistory #Maltese
Eight Thousand Years of Maltese Maritime History: Trade, Piracy, and Naval Warfare in the Central Mediterranean, by Ayse Devrim Atauz. University Press of Florida, 2008
👉https://academic.oup.com/florida-scholarship-online/book/29055
#MaritimeHistory #Maltese
For those who might be interested for a compelling live story:
The first English-language biography of Hayreddin Barbarossa: The Sultan's Admiral: The Life of Barbarossa by Ernle Bradford. Book of the Month Club,1969.
The image shows this ed. (from my private library)
A short🧵
#MaritimeHistory
The first English-language biography of Hayreddin Barbarossa: The Sultan's Admiral: The Life of Barbarossa by Ernle Bradford. Book of the Month Club,1969.
The image shows this ed. (from my private library)
A short🧵
#MaritimeHistory
November 2, 2026 at 6:47 PM
For those who might be interested for a compelling live story:
The first English-language biography of Hayreddin Barbarossa: The Sultan's Admiral: The Life of Barbarossa by Ernle Bradford. Book of the Month Club,1969.
The image shows this ed. (from my private library)
A short🧵
#MaritimeHistory
The first English-language biography of Hayreddin Barbarossa: The Sultan's Admiral: The Life of Barbarossa by Ernle Bradford. Book of the Month Club,1969.
The image shows this ed. (from my private library)
A short🧵
#MaritimeHistory
This rather epic edited collection is now on the Palgrave site! To be published in April 2027!
I'm thrilled to be included alongside so many stellar thinkers and friends like @thehistoriann.bsky.social . #Pacifichistory #maritimehistory #skystorians 🗃️
I'm thrilled to be included alongside so many stellar thinkers and friends like @thehistoriann.bsky.social . #Pacifichistory #maritimehistory #skystorians 🗃️
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Oceanic Encounters throughout History
This handbook examines oceans, seas, beaches, bays and estuaries where cultures and species meet, focused on Pacific, Indian and Australasian histories.
link.springer.com
November 3, 2026 at 10:51 AM
This rather epic edited collection is now on the Palgrave site! To be published in April 2027!
I'm thrilled to be included alongside so many stellar thinkers and friends like @thehistoriann.bsky.social . #Pacifichistory #maritimehistory #skystorians 🗃️
I'm thrilled to be included alongside so many stellar thinkers and friends like @thehistoriann.bsky.social . #Pacifichistory #maritimehistory #skystorians 🗃️
🏝️Have you considered running your own navy and patrolling the Indian Ocean? Well, the East India Company did just that!
I’ve written a short guide for the November issue of Topmasts.
📖Read at: snr.org.uk/topmasts-new...
#IndianOceanHistory #BritishEmpire #EastIndiaCompany #MaritimeHistory
I’ve written a short guide for the November issue of Topmasts.
📖Read at: snr.org.uk/topmasts-new...
#IndianOceanHistory #BritishEmpire #EastIndiaCompany #MaritimeHistory
snr.org.uk
November 4, 2026 at 4:25 PM
🏝️Have you considered running your own navy and patrolling the Indian Ocean? Well, the East India Company did just that!
I’ve written a short guide for the November issue of Topmasts.
📖Read at: snr.org.uk/topmasts-new...
#IndianOceanHistory #BritishEmpire #EastIndiaCompany #MaritimeHistory
I’ve written a short guide for the November issue of Topmasts.
📖Read at: snr.org.uk/topmasts-new...
#IndianOceanHistory #BritishEmpire #EastIndiaCompany #MaritimeHistory
Hopes and prayers these have not gone to a private collector, to never see the light of day again #MaritimeHistory
Don't often share news here because, you know, it's all hideous, but MY TIME HAS COME
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
Rare love letters to French aristocrat shed light on Louis XVI maritime mystery
‘Miracle’ cache of letters written by French scientist who died in ill-fated mission give personal account of 1785 voyage
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Hopes and prayers these have not gone to a private collector, to never see the light of day again #MaritimeHistory
My "Stephen Girard: Captain of American Enterprise and Philanthropy" book project granted me the opportunity to spend time with Girard's financial records. Here you see such a record for his brig SALLY.
#maritimehistory #maritimestudies
#maritimehistory #maritimestudies
November 1, 2026 at 12:31 PM
My "Stephen Girard: Captain of American Enterprise and Philanthropy" book project granted me the opportunity to spend time with Girard's financial records. Here you see such a record for his brig SALLY.
#maritimehistory #maritimestudies
#maritimehistory #maritimestudies
1/32 Imagine your ship limps into a foreign port, badly damaged. You have no money, nobody there knows you, and a letter home takes months. For over 2,000 years, captains had one way out: borrow money and put up the ship itself as collateral. #maritimehistory #maritimelaw
October 30, 2026 at 9:32 AM
1/32 Imagine your ship limps into a foreign port, badly damaged. You have no money, nobody there knows you, and a letter home takes months. For over 2,000 years, captains had one way out: borrow money and put up the ship itself as collateral. #maritimehistory #maritimelaw
From 29 May - 1 June 2028, the Estonian Maritime Museum will host the 10th International Congress of Maritime History in Tallinn, organised by the International Maritime History Association. The theme of the congress is “The Sea Unites and the Sea Divides: Maritime History in a Global Perspective”
October 27, 2026 at 10:18 PM
It was written #OnThisDay in 1910 in Newport, RI.
Did you miss our Distinguished Speaker Series presentation on Ida Lewis by Brian Wallin? Watch it here: youtu.be/EAunnv6G4dM?...
#MaritimeHistory #IdaLewis #Lighthouse
Did you miss our Distinguished Speaker Series presentation on Ida Lewis by Brian Wallin? Watch it here: youtu.be/EAunnv6G4dM?...
#MaritimeHistory #IdaLewis #Lighthouse
Ida Lewis: The Legendary Lady Light Keeper of Lime Rock by Brian Wallin
YouTube video by Ship History
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November 3, 2026 at 5:37 PM
It was written #OnThisDay in 1910 in Newport, RI.
Did you miss our Distinguished Speaker Series presentation on Ida Lewis by Brian Wallin? Watch it here: youtu.be/EAunnv6G4dM?...
#MaritimeHistory #IdaLewis #Lighthouse
Did you miss our Distinguished Speaker Series presentation on Ida Lewis by Brian Wallin? Watch it here: youtu.be/EAunnv6G4dM?...
#MaritimeHistory #IdaLewis #Lighthouse
From 29 May - 1 June 2028, the Estonian Maritime Museum will host the 10th International Congress of Maritime History in Tallinn, organised by the International Maritime History Association. The theme of the congress is “The Sea Unites and the Sea Divides: Maritime History in a Global Perspective”
October 27, 2026 at 5:53 PM
#OTD On October 29, 1814, Fulton (Demologos), the first American steam warship, launched in NY. The advanced catamaran hid its paddle wheel and machinery below the waterline for protection. Carrying auxiliary sails, the U.S. Navy received it in 1816.
#history #navalhistory #maritimehistory
#history #navalhistory #maritimehistory
October 29, 2026 at 6:03 PM
#OTD On October 29, 1814, Fulton (Demologos), the first American steam warship, launched in NY. The advanced catamaran hid its paddle wheel and machinery below the waterline for protection. Carrying auxiliary sails, the U.S. Navy received it in 1816.
#history #navalhistory #maritimehistory
#history #navalhistory #maritimehistory
The next event in our FREE Distinguished Speaker Series is taking place on November 11. Join best-selling author Laurie Gwen Shapiro for a talk about her book The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica. #MaritimeHistory
October 29, 2026 at 5:27 PM
The next event in our FREE Distinguished Speaker Series is taking place on November 11. Join best-selling author Laurie Gwen Shapiro for a talk about her book The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica. #MaritimeHistory