Behind the scenes: Ship Models at Sweden’s Maritime Museum
Explore the behind the scenes process of filming the Argentina, a 'votive', the Aeolus and the East Indiaman ship models at the National Maritime Museum, Sweden.
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World’s No.1 Maritime History Podcast
The Society of Nautical Research launched the Mariner’s Mirror Podcast in October 2020 and has been a resounding success. Since its launch, the podcast has increased public awareness of maritime history and its importance to the modern world and provided a global platform for archives and museums to bring attention to their collections.
With one foot in the present and one in the past The Mariner's Mirror brings you the most exciting and interesting current maritime projects worldwide: including excavations of shipwrecks, the restoration of historic ships, sailing classic yachts and tall ships, unprecedented behind the scenes access to exhibitions, museums and archives worldwide, primary sources and accounts that bring the maritime past alive as never before. Presented by Dr Sam Willis, supported by the Lloyds Register Foundation.
Dr Sam Willis is one of the UK's leading public historians. He has made more than ten multi-part and award-winning TV series for the BBC and National Geographic, that have been seen by tens of millions of viewers worldwide, including The Silk Road and The Maritime Silk Road, and has written more than twenty books, many on maritime history. His work takes him on adventures all over the world.
The Mariner's Mirror Podcast
Listen to the world's No.1 podcast dedicated to all of maritime and naval history. With one foot in the present and one in the past it bring you the most exciting and interesting current maritime projects worldwide that bring the maritime past alive as never before.
Secrets of the Paddle Wheel: PS Waverley
Bringing history to life, The Mariner’s Mirror Podcast takes a closer look at some of the technical drawings held at Lloyd's Register Foundation in a new series of videos produced in collaboration with the Heritage Centre.
Dr Sam Willis explores this technical drawing of a paddle wheel from the Waverley, the world's last sea-going passenger-carrying paddle steamer.
The Rules and Regulations for Composite Ships
In the archives of the Lloyd's Register Foundation is a stunning hand-illustrated portfolio of the Rules of Composite Ships. These were a set of rules regulating the construction of this new type of vessel born of the industrial revolution. Half iron and half timber, these 'Composite' ships transformed maritime capability whilst at the same time challenging existing knowledge of shipbuilding. The illustrated portfolio is the work of Harry Cornish, once Chief Ship Surveyor at Lloyd's Register, a marine classification society.
To find out more Dr Sam Willis spoke with Max Wilson, Senior Archivist at Lloyd's Register Foundation. They explore the Cornish drawings as well as the ship plans of several famous composite ships, including the most famous of them all - Cutty Sark.
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