The Society for Nautical Research promotes research and publishes the results. This research covers all matters relating to mariners, seafaring, navigation, ships, cargoes and ports across all ages and of all nations and all oceans; the languages and customs of the sea; in fact any topic of nautical interest.
The Society:
- supports and encourages research into maritime history and nautical archaeology
- publishes the pre-eminent academic nautical journal, The Mariner’s Mirror, each quarter
- sponsors conferences, lectures, seminars and other events concerning maritime history
- buys paintings and other works of art for the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich
- funds the preservation of Nelson’s flagship, HMS Victory, and other heritage projects
The Society grew out of the kindred nautical interests of forty founders in 1910; and after its first glorious centenary tacks on to the rewards of a second century of endeavour. Two Society members commemorate that centenary with a complete history of the Society for Nautical Research The Mirror of the Seas.
