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Our quarterly newsletter TOPMASTS is now available on our website in its new digital format! 🔗 snr.org.uk/topmasts-news/edi…
#nautical #history #maritime #nauticalnewsletter #nauticalnews
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What can one 1889 drawing tell us about building a safer steamship? 📐🚢 #Engineering #Shipbuilding - YouTube youtube.com/shorts/AX8-S7PYY…
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What happened to SS Federal? #shipwreck #maritimetragedy #engineering - YouTube youtube.com/shorts/-2jG3e4U1…
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Why could a steamship’s own engines strain its hull? ⚙️ - YouTube youtube.com/shorts/7cnUob4R4…
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A new query on our free forum- can you help?! snr.org.uk/snr-forum/topic/s…
#nauticalresearch #historyforum #SocietyForNauticalResearch
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Discover the original documents behind our latest #YouTube production,
'Plan of Section & Elevation Through Engine & Boiler Space for Federal, 11th December 1889', in the Lloyd's Register Foundation Archive
heritage.lrfoundation.org.uk…
#LloydsRegister #nauticalresearch #SNR
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Join the joint Shipshape Network North Hub event, in partnership with the Windermere Jetty Museum, at National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port, on Thursday 29th October, 10am-4pm.
Buy Shipshape Network North Hub Tickets online - Canal & River Trust - canalrivertrust.digitickets.…
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How could a steamship’s engines put its hull under strain?
An 1899 Lloyd’s Register drawing shows how shipbuilders reinforced machinery spaces as steam power altered ship demands. Watch on YouTube now: youtu.be/2_1V_NgMA6s
#MaritimeHistory #MarineEngineering #Shipbuilding
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A few moments from our day recording in Ramsgate ⚓
Listen to The Ports That Made Britain: Ramsgate: snr.org.uk/the-mariners-mirr…
#HeritageHarbours #Ramsgate #MaritimeHistory #TheMarinersMirrorPodcast #LivingHeritage #dunkirksmallboats #nationalhistoricships
ALT Five people pose on a pontoon beside a wooden cabin boat, with Ramsgate Harbour’s waterfront buildings behind them.
ALT A man and a young girl stand beside the bow of Naiad Errant in Ramsgate Harbour.
ALT Inside the boat’s cabin, a man holds a recording microphone towards a young girl during a conversation with two other adults.
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*THIS THURSDAY!*
🎟️ Book now for the 'Your Vessel; Their Future' webinar
Join the Maritime Heritage Trust online to explore how historic vessels inspire the next generation - and where to start when working with schools or youth groups!
BOOK YOUR SPOT - buff.ly/daQBCVy
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⚓ This month's featured maritime artwork is The Jolly Bachelor and the ‘Piratical Proas’ at Datto Point, 1843 a hand-coloured lithograph by Dickinson & Sons after Lieutenant James Hunt
Read more: snr.org.uk/heritage/maritime…
#MaritimeArt #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #NauticalArt
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Members of the Society for Nautical Research are warmly welcomed to join the @the1805club for their annual Trafalgar Night Dinner at HMS Nelson Wardroom - register with the organisers by 30th September!
For more see: snr.org.uk/snr-events/27899-…
#Trafalgar #Navalhistory #1805club
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🎧 Our 'Heritage Harbours: The Ports That Made Britain' series reaches its next port of call: Ramsgate.
Listen now: snr.org.uk/the-mariners-mirr…
#HeritageHarbours #MaritimeHistory #Ramsgate #MarinersMirrorPodcast #PortsThatMadeBritain #SNR #SocietyforNauticalResearch #historypodcast
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SNR has received an inquiry from two school students working on a project about the Bermuda Triangle - can you help? snr.org.uk/snr-forum/topic/b…
#freeforum #maritimemystery #SNR #history #nauticalresearch
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📢 From our free forum - 'I’m researching this early carronade and was wondering where the records concerning serial numbers might be kept?' join the conversation now - snr.org.uk/snr-forum/topic/p…
#SocietyforNauticalResearch #History #navalhistory #historyresearch #cannons #SNR
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🎧 Our 'Heritage Harbours: The Ports That Made Britain' series has arrived in Ipswich. Listen now: snr.org.uk/the-mariners-mirr…
#HeritageHarbours #MaritimeHistory #Ipswich #TheMarinersMirrorPodcast #PortsThatMadeBritain
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🎧 NEW PODCAST EPISODE - THE PORTS THAT MADE BRITAIN: BIDEFORD AND APPLEDORE
🎙️ Listen now:
snr.org.uk/the-mariners-mirr…
#HeritageHarbours #NorthDevon #MaritimeHistory #Shipbuilding #LivingHeritage #WorkingWaterfronts #Freshspring #MarinersMirrorPodcast #SocietyForNauticalResearch
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Can you help with this query on our free forum?
Alessandra is researching John Bishoff, a shipbuilder from Capodistria (now Koper, Slovenia), and is looking for more information
Join the discussion: snr.org.uk/snr-forum/topic/b…
#shipbuilding #nauticalhistory #research #historyforum
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NEW PODCAST EPISODE: THE PORTS THAT MADE BRITAIN – EXETER
A city shaped by merchants, engineering & centuries of adaptation—learn why Exeter's historic waterfront still matters in the first location-based episode of our new series
🎧 snr.org.uk/the-mariners-mirr…
#HeritageHarbours
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🔔 NEW MARINER'S MIRROR PODCAST SERIES! ⚓
🎧 Listen to the first episode now: snr.org.uk/the-mariners-mirr…
#HeritageHarbours #MaritimeHistory #WorkingWaterfronts #PortsThatMadeBritain #MarinersMirrorPodcast #NauticalHistory #CoastalHeritage #HistoryPodcast #HistoricShips
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