Annual lecture

2011 lecture

Captain David Smith OBE FNI RN presented the SNR annual lecture for 2011 on HMS Trincomalee A frigate spanning three centuries'. An enlarged version appears as an article in the February 2012 issue of The Mariner's Mirror.

2010 lecture

Professor Richard Harding, University of Westminster, presented the SNR annual lecture for 2010 at the Royal United Services Institution, Whitehall on 16 June 2010, entitled 'Organizational life cycles, the SNR and maritime history'. An enlarged version appears as an article in the May 2011 issue of The Mariner's Mirror.

2009 lecture

Not held

2008 lecture

Brian Lavery, the Society's Anderson Medallist for 2007, gave a lecture on 'The Sea and the British National Identity' on 28 November at the Royal Over-Seas League Club. The lecture appears in the May 2009 issue of The Mariner's Mirror.

2007 lecture

The Society's Annual Lecture for 2007 was given on 30 November by Professor Roger Knight, with a paper entitled 'Politics and Trust in victualling the Navy, 1793 - 1815'.

Professor Knight is one of Britain's foremost experts on naval history and is currently a Visiting Professor of Naval History at the Greenwich Maritime Institute, University of Greenwich

2006 lecture

The 2006 lecture, Battleship or First Class Cruiser? HMS Dreadnought and the Limitations of Jackie Fisher's Radicalism was given by Dr Eric Grove, Senior Lecturer in Military History at the University of Salford.

Dr Grove is one of the leading naval experts in the world and frequently appears on television and radio as an authority on naval history and contemporary security matters.

HMS Dreadnought, which completed her trials in December 1906, is usually seen as the apotheosis of the battleship and the herald of the Anglo-German competition in such ships that led to war in 1914. The lecture questioned those assumptions and sought to explain the true intended context - and unintended consequences - of this epochal ship.