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Ship launching ceremonies
Launching ceremonies of times past were often more barbarous than the champagne tradition of today.
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Ship design 1650–1815
Between the 17th and 19th centuries the general design of Royal Navy warships changed very little. The designs were standardized by the system of Establishments.
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Severndroog Castle, Shooter's Hill
Severndroog Castle is a Grade II-listed gothic building in Shooter's Hill, near Greenwich, and a monument to naval hero Sir William James (1720-73).
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Sea Fencibles
The Sea Fencibles were a British naval militia, mostly volunteers, that was formed in 1793 to act as an anti-invasion force in coastal waters.
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Samuel Plimsoll and ship safety
In the 19th century, MP Samuel Plimsoll campaigned for load lines to be painted on the side of ships to prevent them being overloaded and sinking.
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Samuel Pepys, sex and the Stuarts - film
Uncover the salacious side of Stuart London, from the many mistresses of King Charles II to Samuel Pepys's notorious affairs.
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Samuel Pepys and the Royal Society - film
Did you know that Samuel Pepys became president of the Royal Society - despite very limited scientific knowledge! How did his love of fish almost stop the publication of Isaac Newton's world-changing Principia Mathematica?
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Sailors' cap ribbons
The silk ribbons on a sailor's cap came to be through both custom and regulation.
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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is the hero of Daniel Defoe's famous 1719 novel that tells the story of a man cast away on an island in the Caribbean for 26 years.
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge was first published in 1798 and is one of the most famous poems in the English language.
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