The Mariner's Mirror Podcast

By The Society for Nautical Research and the Lloyds Register Foundation

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Synthesis Wales
 Mar 12, 2022
MM is always a stimulating listen, with a tremendous breadth and coverage of nautical themes it is among the best historical podcasts. Featuring excellent guests and ongoing series e.g. great sea battles/iconic ships it really shines out.

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The world's No.1 podcast dedicated to all of maritime and naval history. With one foot in the present and one in the past we bring you the most exciting and interesting current maritime projects worldwide: including excavations of shipwrecks, the restoration of historic ships, sailing classic yachts and tall ships, unprecedented behind the scenes access to exhibitions, museums and archives worldwide, primary sources and accounts that bring the maritime past alive as never before. From the Society for Nautical Research, and the Lloyds Register Foundation. Presented by Dr Sam Willis.

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Episode Date
The Naval Fiction Interviews: David Davies and Matthew Quinton
Dec 23, 2025
The Naval Fiction Interviews: Julian Stockwin and Thomas Kydd
Dec 12, 2025
A Corsair's Meal: Maritime Malta 5
Nov 28, 2025
Island Fortress - Malta in World War 2: Maritime Malta 4
Nov 26, 2025
Seapower and The Knights of St John: Maritime Malta 3
Nov 24, 2025
Shipwrecks of Malta: Maritime Malta 2
Nov 21, 2025
Valletta's Grand Harbour and the Rolex Middle Sea Race: Maritime Malta 1
Nov 19, 2025
The Frozen Frontier: The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-04
Nov 04, 2025
HMS Victory's Conservation
Oct 22, 2025
Where Nelson Died
Oct 21, 2025
Lifeboats and Lessons: Memories of Safety at Sea
Oct 14, 2025
No More Napoleons: Britain and the Balance of Power
Sep 30, 2025
In Search of the Clan Line Sailors
Sep 23, 2025
Ocean Empire: The Clan Line Legacy
Sep 09, 2025
Nazi Midget Submarine: Seehund
Aug 26, 2025
Seapower Past & Present 7: South China
Aug 19, 2025
Who Should We Rescue? The Morals of Maritime Emergency
Aug 12, 2025
Mapping the Atlantic: The Meteor Expedition, 1925
Aug 05, 2025
Tales from the Cinque Ports: New Romney
Jul 29, 2025
Seapower Past & Present 6: Black Sea
Jul 22, 2025
Sir John Ross's Arctic Exploration Ships
Jul 08, 2025
Seapower Past & Present 5: Technology
Jul 01, 2025
Seapower Past & Present 4: Middle East
Jun 24, 2025
The Last Seagoing Paddle Steamer: PS Waverley
Jun 10, 2025
Tales from the Cinque Ports: Tenterden
Jun 04, 2025
Seapower Past & Present 3: The Arctic
May 27, 2025
Seapower Past & Present 2: Critical National Infrastructure
May 20, 2025
Seapower Past & Present 1: Economic Warfare
May 13, 2025
Tales From the Cinque Ports: Faversham
May 06, 2025
The Bremen Cog: Maritime Germany 2
Apr 22, 2025
The Cinque Ports
Apr 08, 2025
The Ocean and Us: Maritime Germany 1
Apr 01, 2025
The Ship That Changed Shipbuilding: ss Fullagar
Mar 18, 2025
I Sank the Lusitania: The War Diary of Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger, May 1915, Commander, U-20, 1915
Mar 04, 2025
How to Catch a Murderer At Sea: Dr Crippen and the SS Montrose
Feb 20, 2025
Great Sea Fights: The Battle of the Nile, 1798
Feb 03, 2025
Predator of the Seas: The Slaveship That Fought for Emancipation
Jan 17, 2025
Kidnapped at Sea: The Tragic Story of David Henry White in the American Civil War
Jan 09, 2025
Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners
Jan 02, 2025
Indian Figureheads From the Royal Navy's Bombay Dockyard
Dec 16, 2024
European Ship Surveyors in China, 1869-1918
Dec 02, 2024
The Last Shantyman: The Remarkable Maritime Life of Stan Hugill
Nov 18, 2024
Merchants, Trawlers and Whalers: The Maritime History of Hull
Nov 04, 2024
The Royal Navy in the Cold War
Oct 22, 2024
The Amazing History of Icebreakers
Oct 07, 2024
Nelson's Pathfinders: A Forgotten Story in the Triumph of British Sea Power
Sep 30, 2024
Black Mariners in the Royal Navy
Sep 23, 2024
The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of Global Sea Trade
Sep 16, 2024
Portsmouth Historic Quarter and the SHE_SEES Exhibition
Sep 12, 2024
Eyewitness: Captain Avery and the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
Aug 27, 2024
Finmen: The Inuit Who Paddled 1200 Miles
Aug 12, 2024
Lifesavers: How Conflict Innovation Can Build a Better World
Jul 22, 2024
King of the Beggars: The Extraordinary Life of Billy Waters
Jul 09, 2024
My Yacht Was Sunk by Killer Whales
Jul 01, 2024
Shipwreck Survivors
Jun 21, 2024
Sea Monsters Part 2: The Eyewitness Accounts
Jun 10, 2024
Sea Monsters Part 1: The Analysis
May 27, 2024
WW2 Battle Convoy: HG-76
May 13, 2024
Smugglers, Pirates and Terrorists: Maritime Crime and Security
May 03, 2024
The Dreadnought Hoax
Apr 23, 2024
Vrak - The Museum of Wrecks, Stockholm.
Jan 29, 2024
The First Naval Architect: Fredrik Henrik af Chapman (1721-1808)
Jan 22, 2024
Sweden's National Maritime Museum
Jan 15, 2024
The Vikings in Arab Lands
Jan 08, 2024
Swedish Naval Power 1500-present
Jan 04, 2024
Nelson and the Walrus
Dec 25, 2023
Great Maritime Innovations 2: Sea Charts
Dec 18, 2023
Great Maritime Innovations 1: The Stockless Anchor
Dec 11, 2023
Freak Ships of the Nineteenth Century: SS Bessemer
Dec 04, 2023
Filming The World's Best Ship Models: Stockholm
Nov 27, 2023
The Royal Navy at the time of the Great Fire of London
Nov 19, 2023
Maritime Scarborough
Nov 13, 2023
The Titanic Inquiry 5: Annie Robinson
Nov 06, 2023
The Titanic Inquiry 4: Charles Lightoller
Oct 30, 2023
Great Sea Fights 11: Leyte Gulf
Oct 23, 2023
Admiral Lord Nelson, Trafalgar and Heroic Death at Sea
Oct 21, 2023
The Titanic Inquiry 3: Fred Barrett
Oct 16, 2023
The Titanic Inquiry 2: Lady Duff-Gordon
Oct 09, 2023
The Titanic Inquiry 1: Introduction
Oct 02, 2023
The Rules and Regulations for Composite Ships
Sep 25, 2023
The Maritime Silk Road
Sep 18, 2023
Women Shipbuilders on the Clyde and Tyne
Sep 11, 2023
'SHE_SEES': Women in Maritime 2
Sep 04, 2023
Rewriting Women into Maritime History
Aug 29, 2023
HMS Poseidon: China's Secret Salvage of Britain's Lost Submarine
Aug 20, 2023
The Six: The Chinese Survivors of the Titanic Disaster
Aug 14, 2023
The Maze Collection of Chinese Junks
Aug 07, 2023
The Chinese Shipwrecks of South East Asia
Jul 31, 2023
Zheng He and the Chinese Treasure Fleets
Jul 25, 2023
HMS Captain: Victorian Catastrophe
Jul 17, 2023
A Bronze Age Maritime Treasure: The Uluburun Ship
Jul 10, 2023
Castaways
Jul 03, 2023
Aborigines and the Sea
Jun 27, 2023
The First Cricket Tour to Australia and the ss Great Britain
Jun 19, 2023
The Pearling Lugger Penguin
Jun 15, 2023
The Brisbane Dry Dock
Jun 05, 2023
Queensland Maritime Museum
Jun 01, 2023
The Hunt for Bismarck
May 26, 2023
Elizabeth II's Navy 1952-2022
May 17, 2023
Essex Heritage Work Boats
May 11, 2023
The Last Convict Ship: The Edwin Fox
May 04, 2023
Death at Sea
Apr 29, 2023
Mary Celeste: The Mystery Explained
Apr 21, 2023
Mozambique Island: Maritime Africa 6
Apr 11, 2023
Ship-Model Maker Extraordinaire: Gerry Westenberg
Apr 04, 2023
William Dampier and HMS Roebuck
Mar 31, 2023
The Duyfken
Mar 28, 2023
The Dutch Discovery of Australia
Mar 27, 2023
Maritime Special Forces 2: Combat Divers
Mar 20, 2023
Maritime Special Forces 1: The SBS
Mar 13, 2023
Navigation in the Middle Ages
Mar 05, 2023
The Maritime History of Time
Feb 28, 2023
When Hitler Scrapped His Navy
Feb 20, 2023
Maritime Disasters: HMS Gloucester
Feb 11, 2023
Fishermen Vs U-Boats
Feb 06, 2023
Shipbuilding at Barrow-in-Furness
Jan 30, 2023
Iconic Ships 19: HMS Agamemnon - Nelson's Favourite Ship
Jan 23, 2023
Maritime Africa 5: The World Heritage Sites of Songo Mnara and Kilwa Kisiwani
Jan 16, 2023
Maritime Africa 4: The Swahili Coast
Jan 04, 2023
Victory at Sea in WW2
Dec 22, 2022
Freak Ships of the Nineteenth Century IV: The Cleopatra
Dec 14, 2022
How to Map the Ocean Floor: The Challenger Expedition 1872-1876
Dec 07, 2022
Freak Ships of the Nineteenth Century III: Cigar Ships
Dec 01, 2022
Maritime Africa 3: African Whaling
Nov 23, 2022
Maritime Africa 2: The Skeleton Coast of Namibia
Nov 16, 2022
Iconic Ships 19: Preussen
Nov 06, 2022
Maritime Africa: African Canoemen
Oct 28, 2022
HMS Victory - An Audio Tour Part 3: The Weather Deck and Visitor Book
Oct 21, 2022
HMS Victory - An Audio Tour Part 2: The Gundecks
Oct 21, 2022
HMS Victory - An Audio Tour Part 1: The Hold
Oct 21, 2022
Fishwives!
Oct 10, 2022
Maritime Disasters: SS Waratah - The Ship That Disappeared
Oct 03, 2022
Great Sea Fights 10: Salamis
Sep 26, 2022
The Magellan Myth Uncovered
Sep 20, 2022
Freak Ships of the Nineteenth Century II: Circular Ships
Sep 14, 2022
Freak Ships of the Nineteenth Century I: Monitors
Sep 06, 2022
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner II: The Lessons From The Past
Sep 01, 2022
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Aug 30, 2022
The Golden Age of Piracy
Aug 24, 2022
Maritime Disasters: Vasa
Aug 10, 2022
Maritime Disasters: HMS Guardian
Aug 02, 2022
The H.L. Hunley
Jul 31, 2022
The Wreck of the Andrea Doria Part 3: The Wreck
Jul 26, 2022
The Wreck of the Andrea Doria Part 2: The Eyewitness Accounts
Jul 25, 2022
The Wreck of the Andrea Doria Part 1: The Events
Jul 25, 2022
Iconic Ships 18: Sutton Hoo
Jul 20, 2022
Iconic Ships 17: Henry V's Grace Dieu
Jul 14, 2022
Iconic Ships 16: SS United States
Jul 03, 2022
Maritime Innovation 1: The Propeller
Jun 28, 2022
Maritime Motherhood Part 2: Hannah Davison's Scrapbook
Jun 25, 2022
Maritime Motherhood Part 1: The Davison Family and the Alice A. Leigh/Rewa
Jun 25, 2022
Dressed to Kill: A History of Naval Uniform
Jun 15, 2022
Maritime Disasters: Empress of Ireland
May 29, 2022
Great Sea Fights: The Battle of Solebay, 1672
May 28, 2022
The U-Boat War: 1939-1945
May 24, 2022
The Feejee Mermaid
May 19, 2022
Mermaids and Sirens
May 18, 2022
The Lusitania Disaster: Part 4 The Exhibition
May 08, 2022
The Lusitania Disaster: Part 3 The Ship and the Sinking
May 07, 2022
The Lusitania Disaster: Part 2 The Eyewitness Accounts
May 07, 2022
The Lusitania Disaster: Part 1 An Introduction to the Eyewitness Accounts
May 07, 2022
Ultimate Ship Models 2: The Great Eastern
Apr 30, 2022
Robinson Crusoe / Alexander Selkirk
Apr 25, 2022
Iconic Ships 15: Carpathia
Apr 18, 2022
Titanic's Anchors
Apr 15, 2022
The Search for the Northwest Passage
Apr 11, 2022
Madness At Sea - A History
Apr 05, 2022
Ultimate Ship Models 1: HMS Royal George
Mar 29, 2022
Iconic Ships 14: The San Juan, 1563
Mar 22, 2022
Great Sea Fights 9: The Egadi Islands 241 BC
Mar 10, 2022
The Vikings
Mar 08, 2022
The East India Company
Feb 25, 2022
The Hunt for Shackleton's Endurance
Feb 17, 2022
The Battle of Guadalcanal, 1942
Feb 07, 2022
How to Become a Naval Officer: Part 1 The U.S. Naval War College, Rhode Island
Jan 25, 2022
The Titanic
Jan 17, 2022
The UK's Historic Ships and HMS Medusa
Dec 20, 2021
Pearl Harbor
Dec 07, 2021
Iconic Ships 13: Thermopylae
Dec 06, 2021
Iconic Ships 12: HMS Barham
Nov 25, 2021
The Maritime History of Wales 5: The Welsh U-Boat Project 1914-1918
Nov 21, 2021
The Maritime History of Wales 4: Locating Welsh Shipwrecks
Nov 20, 2021
The Maritime History of Wales 3: The Bronze Bell Wreck
Nov 18, 2021
The Maritime History of Wales 2: The Newport Medieval Ship
Nov 17, 2021
The Maritime History of Wales 1: The Porth Felen Anchor Stock
Nov 15, 2021
Coffin Ships and The Plimsoll Line
Nov 02, 2021
Iconic Ships 11: HMS Warrior
Oct 26, 2021
The Battle of Trafalgar Special, Part III: HMS Pickle
Oct 22, 2021
The Battle of Trafalgar Special, Part II: Nelson's Wounds
Oct 21, 2021
The Battle of Trafalgar Special, Part I: The Eyewitness Accounts
Oct 21, 2021
Iconic Ships 10: Ark Royal
Oct 14, 2021
How to Drive an Aircraft Carrier
Oct 12, 2021
The Maritime History of World War 2
Oct 07, 2021
Iconic Ships 9: RMS Mauretania
Sep 28, 2021
Iconic Ships 8: The SS Great Britain
Sep 23, 2021
Ships' Figureheads Revealed
Sep 15, 2021
Is Britain still a Global Power?
Sep 06, 2021
The First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin
Sep 02, 2021
The Sunken Archaeology of Malta and the Virtual Museum 'Underwater Malta'
Aug 25, 2021
Great Sea Fights 6: USS Constitution v HMS Guerriere 1812. Part 4 - The Single Ship Actions of 1812
Aug 22, 2021
Great Sea Fights 6: USS Constitution v HMS Guerriere 1812. Part 3 - Inside the US Navy
Aug 21, 2021
Great Sea Fights 6: USS Constitution v HMS Guerriere 1812. Part 2 - The Eyewitness Accounts
Aug 20, 2021
Great Sea Fights 6: USS Constitution v HMS Guerriere 1812. Part 1 The Events
Aug 19, 2021
Great Sea Fights 5: A Tudor Battle, 1512 Part III: How to Recreate a Medieval Sea Battle
Aug 12, 2021
Great Sea Fights 5: A Tudor Battle, 1512 Part II: The Contemporary Accounts
Aug 11, 2021
Great Sea Fights 5: A Tudor Battle in the Reign of Henry VIII, 10 August, 1512.
Aug 10, 2021
Maritime Scotland 3: A Blockade Runner from Fife in the American Civil War
Aug 06, 2021
Maritime Scotland 2: The Forgotten Shipbuilders of Leith
Aug 05, 2021
Maritime Scotland 1: The WW2 Midget Submarines of Aberlady Bay
Aug 04, 2021
The Oldest Canal in Britain? The Exeter Ship Canal
Jul 28, 2021
Iconic Ships 7: The Billy Ruffian - HMS Bellerophon
Jul 23, 2021
Iconic Ships 6: USS Constitution
Jul 21, 2021
Iconic Ships 5: HMS Belfast
Jul 12, 2021
The 'Sunken Library': An extraordinary collection of books found in a 17th century shipwreck
Jul 07, 2021
Maritime Archives Masterclass
Jun 29, 2021
The Forgotten Music of the Arctic Whalers
Jun 22, 2021
Iconic Ships 4: The Cutty Sark
Jun 16, 2021
The Lost Fishing Village of Hallsands
Jun 09, 2021
Great Sea Fights: The Battle of Jutland, 1916 Part 3 - The British Accounts
Jun 02, 2021
Great Sea Fights: The Battle of Jutland, 1916 Part 2 - The German Accounts
Jun 01, 2021
Great Sea Fights: The Battle of Jutland, 1916 Part 1 - The Events
May 31, 2021
Great Sea Fights: The Battle of Tsushima, 1905 Part 3 – The Japanese Perspective
May 29, 2021
Great Sea Fights: The Battle of Tsushima, 1905 Part 2 - The Russian Perspective
May 28, 2021
Great Sea Fights: The Battle of Tsushima, 1905 Part 1
May 27, 2021
The Evacuation of Dunkirk, 1940
May 26, 2021
Iconic Ships 3: HMS Hood
May 24, 2021
Amphibious Operations
May 21, 2021
The Wonderful World of Ships' Cats, Dogs and Birds: The Museum of Maritime Pets
May 13, 2021
The Nanggala Submarine Disaster and the K-Class Submarines of the First World War
May 06, 2021
Ghost Ships of the Dart: The Wreck of the Fever Ship Mayfly
Apr 30, 2021
Freed from the Ice: The Last Entry of the Logbook of the Whaler Swan
Apr 26, 2021
Iconic Ships 2: The Mayflower
Apr 22, 2021
Iconic Ships 1: The Mary Rose
Apr 15, 2021
The Terror
Apr 12, 2021
The Falklands Sinkings: The Untold Story
Apr 01, 2021
The Channel with Charlie Connelly
Mar 29, 2021
How to Remember Captain Cook
Mar 23, 2021
'Titanic in Miniature' - The Wonderful ss Shieldhall
Mar 15, 2021
Navigation Masterclass: Secrets of the South Pacific Wave Pilots
Mar 09, 2021
Sea Shanties and The Wellerman.
Mar 01, 2021
Steamboat Excursions on the Hudson for Chinese Americans, 1883.
Feb 24, 2021
Great Sea Fights: Cape St Vincent (1797) Part 3 - The Spanish View
Feb 14, 2021
Great Sea Fights: Cape St Vincent (1797) Part 2 - The Analysis
Feb 14, 2021
Great Sea Fights: Cape St Vincent (1797) Part 1 - The Events
Feb 13, 2021
The Most Important Book in Maritime History? Lloyd's Register
Feb 08, 2021
Trafalgar Battle Surgeon: William Beatty
Jan 27, 2021
The Medical Chest that Belonged to Nelson's Surgeon
Jan 22, 2021
The Royal Navy's Bloodiest Mutiny: Murder and Mayhem on HMS Hermione
Jan 19, 2021
The Challenges and Rewards of Maritime History
Jan 12, 2021
Africans in Tudor and Stuart Port Towns
Jan 06, 2021
Great Sea Fights: The River Plate Part 3 - Analysis
Dec 22, 2020
Great Sea Fights: The River Plate Part 2 – The Sinking of the Graf Spee
Dec 14, 2020
Great Sea Fights: The River Plate Part 1 - The Dispatches
Dec 13, 2020
How to map climate change with 200 year-old ships' logbooks
Dec 07, 2020
The National Maritime Museum's new photography exhibition - 'Exposure: Lives at Sea'
Nov 30, 2020
English History's Most Significant Shipwreck
Nov 25, 2020
Lost Maps of the Spanish Armada
Nov 14, 2020
The Hudson River Maritime Museum
Nov 07, 2020
Turner's Amazing Maritime Art
Nov 02, 2020
HMS Victory and the Battle of Trafalgar
Oct 21, 2020
Welcome to The Mariner's Mirror Podcast!
Oct 16, 2020