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At the end of last year, I paid a visit with some friends to Lyttelton Anglican Cemetery to look for some specific people and also to find some new (to us) stories. Lyttelton is the port for Christchurch, on the east coast of the South Island and is full of maritime and other tales. The cemetery is situated on a hill above the town, overlooking the h...


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Naval Dockyards Society 30th Annual Conference

(Hybrid)

National Maritime Museum Greenwich Saturday 28 March 2026
Sponsored by the Society for Nautical Research

Aftermath of the 1956 ...


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“Dutch ships in a calm sea” (detail); Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633–1707), ca. 1665. Note the sailor in the ship’s beakhead relieving himself and the swab-looking item ha...


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Beakhead (top) and internal grating (bottom left) at the bow of the replica Dutch East Indiaman Duyfken (late 16th century; Australian National Maritime Museum). Bottom right: One of the heads and a tow rag at the bow of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s HMB Endeavour replica (mid- to late 18th...


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