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Maintenance on a clipper is an ever constant job. Rigging and sails take a lot of strain and need regular replacement but other areas also need attention, if less frequently.

The World's Fair of 1889 drew some 32 million visitors to see attractions including the newly-built Eiffel Tower. Our archives include the evocative account of Robert Arthur, one of the visitors to the exhibition, who, along with a party of friends, travelled to Paris on a barge named City of London.

Today is World Maritime Day and this year we're celebrating the critical link between shipping and global society. International Maritime Organization (IMO) Secretary-General, Kitack Lim, tells us more.

The National Maritime Museum and the Itsekiri Kingdom in Nigeria have a century-long, shared history. Working with members of the Itsekiri community, PhD student Julian Binter gives new meaning to our collection.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the death of Rudyard Kipling. Best remembered today as a poet, short-story writer and novelist, he was also involved in the founding of the National Maritime Museum and even chose the Museum's name.

Captain Moore's log has taught us a lot about what happened on board Cutty Sark while the ship was in port. This week we look into what his notes can tell us about loading and unloading cargo.

By the 1880's telegraphic communications were firmly established and there was a large network connecting cities and countries around the world.

Continuing our blog on Cutty Sark's thirteenth voyage, this week Cutty Sark volunteer Roger Hodge looks into what Captain Moore's logs, and other historic documents from that time, can tell us about events that occurred while the ship was arriving or leaving port.

As well as being objects of beauty, the astrolabe was the instrument favoured for instruction and observation in celestial astronomy for more than a millennium. We hear more from Christopher Parkin, Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford.