June 2023 Issue Stephen Taylor Cast Away in Patagonia The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder By David Grann LR
June 2020 Issue Mathew Lyons Come Hell & High Water Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail 1740–1840 By Stephen Taylor
August 2018 Issue Robert Mayhew Vessel of Knowledge Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude That Changed the World By Peter Moore
August 2016 Issue Peter Moore From Plymouth to Polynesia Endeavouring Banks: Exploring Collections from the ‘Endeavour’ Voyage 1768–1771 By Neil Chambers LR
May 2016 Issue Peter Moore ‘Great South Land of the Holy Spirit’ The Savage Shore: Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery By Graham Seal LR
March 2003 Issue Jeremy Lewis Press Gangs and Pensioners Limeys: The True Story of One Man's War Against Ignorance, The Establishment and the Deadly Scurvy By David I Harvie LR
July 2003 Issue Tom Pocock Britannia Rules the Waves Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World, 1788-1857 By Peter Padfield LR
December 2003 Issue Tim Heald Shenanigans On Ship The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty By Caroline Alexander LR
July 2004 Issue Andrew Taylor The Botanical Buccaneer A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier By Diana and Michael Preston LR
September 2004 Issue Simon Heffer The Pride of the Fleet The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815 By N A M Rodger LR
October 2008 Issue Nigel Jones Life on the Ocean Wave Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy By Roy & Lesley Adkins LR
September 2007 Issue Nigel Jones Rum, Sodomy and the Lash The Line Upon a Wind: An Intimate History of the Last and Greatest War Fought at Sea Under Sail, 1793–1815 By Noel Mostert Cochrane the Dauntless: The Life and Adventures of Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 1775–1860 By David Cordingly Storm and Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1809 By Stephen Taylor LR
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