Maritime history

Two survivors of the Lusitania disaster

Did Britain doom the Lusitania?

A painting showing the defeat of the Spanish Armada

The Spanish Armada: all at sea

View of a sham fight on the Serpentine, Hyde Park, London, 1814

The year when fear of Napoleon stalked the land

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The North Sea and Bronze Age remains . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tudors at sea: 8 ways to survive a voyage

Picture depicting the Dogger Bank Incident

Q&A What was the 'North Sea Outrage'?

Photo of HMS Hood

Second World War

Q&A Why did HMS Hood sink so quickly in 1941?

An oil painting by John Cleveley The Elder depicting the Royal Naval Dockyard

The quest for longitude: the men who mapped the surface of the earth

Destroyer escorts fire depth charges against submarine raiders in the Atlantic during the Second World War. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

What the modern navy did for us

Captain Walker (fourth from the left), clutching a hastily grabbed sandwich in his right hand, plots his next move during a patrol that saw his group notch up a record six kills, February 1944. (Photo by Past Pix/SSPL/Getty Images)

The Library Johnnie Walker: U-boat hunter in the Second World War

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Horatio Nelson (1758-1805). I think it's safe to say that not everyone in the establishment was devastated by his death at Trafalgar, says Johnny Vaughan. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The Spanish Armada: Tudor spin portrayed the events of August 1588 as a glorious English victory but, argues Robert Hutchinson, bad weather and bad tactics had more to do with the Spanish fleet's failure than Elizabethan derring-do. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The Spanish Armada: England’s lucky escape

Nelson mortally wounded at Trafalgar in 1805

Nelson: the unhappy admiral

A coloured engraving from the 16th century depicting Walter Ralegh's arrival in Virginia. (DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Tudors in America: how England’s New World colonies came into being

The battle of the Nile, fought at night in the Abu Qir Bay near Alexandria. (Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Second World War

Britain’s 10 most significant naval battles