Maritime History
Hull trawler joins ss Great Britain and Royal Yacht on Historic Ships Register
Arctic Corsair, Hull's last sidewinder trawler, is now listed on the National Register of Historic Vessels after volunteers worked hard to preserve her.
A celebration of lighthouses at National Maritime Museum Cornwall
A new exhibition at National Maritime Museum Cornwall celebrates the grandeur of lighthouses and explores the lives and stories of the lighthouse keepers who manned them.
Time and Tide: National Railway Museum celebrates the history of North Sea Ferries
A new exhibition at the National Railway Museum in York explores over 100 years of North Sea ferry crossings between Harwich and Hook, when ferries were part of the British Railways fleet.
Cutty Sark to be restored in time for Olympics as funding gap is met for £46 million campaign
Culture Minister Margaret Hodge has announced a £3 million grant for the project to save the Cutty Sark, completing the £46 million funding package needed to restore the iconic Greenwich ship.
Mechanical submarine returned to U-Boat Story at Liverpool Woodside Ferry Terminal
Resurgam, the 10-ton replica of the world's first mechanically-propelled submarine, has returned to the U-Boat Story in Liverpool after a repair mission by experts at Birkenhead's Maritime and...
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard marks 88 years of HMS Victory
This week marks the 88th anniversary of HMS Victory, the iconic warship famously used by Lord Nelson in his victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, being moved to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
Mary Rose Trust unveils treasures and enlists new crew members in fundraising drive
The Mary Rose Trust has unveiled an innovative plan to get the public to raise £250,000 towards the remaining £1 million needed to finish off its ambitious redevelopment project.
Mary Rose Trust works to unite Henry VIII's warship with its Tudor treasures
The first phase of a new museum being built at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard around the Mary Rose opens in 2012. Richard Moss talks to Christopher Dobbs of the Mary Rose Trust about the ambitious...
Curator's Choice : Christopher Dobbs of the Mary Rose Trust chooses a Tudor shovel
Christopher Dobbs of the Mary Rose Trust talks about a wooden ballast shovel which is part of the Mary Rose Museum collection - and just one of thousands of objects recovered from the historic...
Stourport-on-Severn wins Best Heritage Project at National Lottery Awards 2009
The Stourport-on-Severn canal basins project beat off hundreds of projects to claim £2,000 and the title of Best Heritage project at The National Lottery Awards 2009.
Hatch the dog returns to the Mary Rose after 500 years
A painstakingly preserved and reconstructed skeleton of a dog recovered from the Mary Rose is to go on display at the Mary Rose Museum.
Treasures from Orkney Viking burial grave to go on show at York Jorvik
Artefacts including weaponry, toys and grooming accessories designed to accompany bodies into the afterlife on a Viking burial ship will be revealed at the Jorvik Viking Centre in York this May.
Last operational World War II motor boats saved for the nation
Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust has acquired a pair of rare World War Two motorboats with the help of £580,000 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
Legendary Liverpool youth club Florence Institute reborn with lucrative Lottery win
A Toxteth youth club closed for more than 20 years will be rebuilt with £3.7 million in Lottery Fund cash, alongside a £3 million win for Northern Ireland's Giant's Causeway and boosts for other...
£10 million Hull History Centre ready for opening as final archives arrive
The final boxes of a 28,000-strong haul have arrived at the "fantastic" new Hull History Centre, which is set to open later this month following a two-year, £10 million building project.
