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For several months I have been delving into stories and personalities represented in the surviving Board of Trade crew lists from the year 1915.

One unassuming print in our collection reveals a different perspective to the extraordinary celebrations that followed the Battle of the Glorious First June. Hazel Vidler, Ship Portrait volunteer, reveals more.

Artist and writer John Kelly delves into the fascinating history of the ship's log and the many experiences and discoveries it has recorded.

On Saturday 10 September we will be opening up the ship model stores at No.1 Smithery, The Historic Dockyard Chatham.

An intriguing item in the Caird Library rare book collection: 'The Mariners' Marvellous Magazine : or wonders of the ocean : containing the most remarkable adventures and relations of mariners in various parts of the globe' was begging to be introduced.

Our item of the month is the Board of Trade certificates for James Pollock (1838-1910), founder of the shipbuilding and engineering...

The journal records the details of a voyage from Plymouth to London and back again, performed in a little boat in the year 1677.