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It's all hands on deck as we batten down the hatches and learn the ropes of seafaring language.

You would not think there was time for many enjoyments on board one of the fastest ships in the world. However, Captain Richard Woodget (Cutty Sark's master 1885-1895) had some rather unusual pastimes.

How did Samuel Pepys celebrate his birthday? Presents and cake just didn't cut it for the world's greatest diarist.

Plague killed around 100,000 people in Pepys's London. We speak to the Museum of London Archaeology about how to find the bodies.

We delve into the Archives to look at material from the doomed Arctic Expedition led by John Franklin and ask, what really happened to Franklin and his men...

One hundred and twelve years ago on the 27 May 1905 the Imperial Japanese Navy achieved a major victory at the Battle of Tsushima, destroying or capturing much of the Russian fleet that had sailed 18,000 nautical miles from the Baltic in an attempt to reinforce the Russian Pacific Squadron at Port Arthur.