OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Mariners Mirror is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Indian Figureheads: Carvings from Royal Navy ships built at Bombay	4
The German High Seas Fleet, 1914–1918: The Kaiser’s challenge to the Royal Navy The German High Seas Fleet, 1914–1918: The Kaiser’s challenge to the Royal Navy by A. Kon	2
Hitler’s Attack U-boats: The Kriegsmarine’s WWII Submarine Strike Force	2
Olympic, Titanic, Britannic: The anatomy and evolution of the Olympic class Olympic, Titanic, Britannic: The anatomy and evolution of the Olympic class by S. MillsBlooms	2
The ‘Wager’: A tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder The ‘Wager’: A tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder by D. Grann, Simon & Schuster, 2023, £20 (hb), £10.99 (pb) xi	2
The Ocean Class of the Second World War	2
A Scottish Blockade Runner in the American Civil War: Joannes Wyllie of the steamer ‘Ad-Vance’ A Scottish Blockade Runner in the American Civil War: Joannes Wyllie of the steamer ‘Ad-Va	2
Boatlines: Scottish craft of sea, coast and canal Boatlines: Scottish craft of sea, coast and canal , by I. Stephen, Birlinn Ltd, 2023, £16.99 (hb), 320 pages, illustrat	1
The Tyne Coal Keel: A unique British watercraft, 1400–1890	1
The Purser–Pharmacist Mate in the American Merchant Marine in the Second World War	1
The Devil’s Highway: Urban anxieties and subaltern cultures in London’s sailortown, c. 1850–1900	1
Square-rigger Sunset: The passages of the four- and five-masted ships and barques Square-rigger Sunset: The passages of the four- and five-masted ships and barques , by	1
A. C. F. David (1924–2021)	1
The Birth and Growth of Two Scottish Deep-sea Tramp Ship Firms: Hugh Hogarth & Sons and the Lyle Shipping Company Limited, 1832–1967	1
Shipwrecked: A true civil war story of mutinies, jailbreaks, blockade-running, and the slave trade	1
Tony Pawlyn (1942–2024)	1
Navigating by the Southern Cross: A history of the European discovery and exploration of Australia	1
Don’t Swamp the Boat: Balancing requirements for the US Navy’s original six frigates	1
Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution by E. J. Dolin, Liveright, 2022, $32.50 (hb), $18.95 (pb) x	1
Royal Yachts Under Sail Royal Yachts Under Sail by B. Lavery, Seaforth, Barnsley, 2022, £50 (hb), 208 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index, ISBN 9781399092913	1
The Silk Dress and the Shipwreck: A seventeenth-century wreck near Texel	1
The ‘Prince Royal of Denmark’s Yacht’: A career in royal, naval and whaling service, 1785–1837	1
Tribals, Battles and Darings: The genesis of the modern destroyer	1
The Myth of HMS Minden and ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’: Where did it originate?	1
Maritime Animals: Ships, species, stories	1

Privilege, Economy, and State in Old Regime France: Marine insurance, war and the Atlantic Empire under Louis XIV	0
The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the battle for a national strategy	0
Suppressing Piracy in the Early Eighteenth Century: Pirates, merchants and British imperial authority in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans	0
Tsushima	0
Time to Talk Turkey: The British Naval and German military missions to the Ottoman Empire in 1912–14	0
Did Steam Make Shipping Safer? Evidence from the British Coastal Bulk Trades	0
Knight of the North Atlantic: Baron Siegfried von Forstner and the War Patrols of ‘U-402’, 1941–1943	0
Ideologies of Western Naval Power, c.1500–1815	0
Anglo-Swedish Commercial Connections and Diplomatic Relations in the Seventeenth Century	0
Navigation: Kupe and Cook	0
The Etymology and Early History of Skiff: International waters	0
Jaap R. Bruijn (1938–2022)	0
John Lenthall: The life of a naval constructor	0
The Naval Mutinies of 1798: The Irish plot to seize the Channel Fleet	0
Reilen en zeilen van de admiraliteit van Rotterdam in de jaren 1630–1640	0
Agamemnon’s Sailing Speeds and the Benefits of Coppering	0
Facing the Sea: Essays in Swedish maritime studies Facing the Sea: Essays in Swedish maritime studies , by S. Ekström and L. Müller (eds), Nordic Academic Press, 2021, £	0
‘Flying the late King’s Colours’: Royalist privateering during the First Anglo-Dutch War, 1652–1654	0
Sailing Shipping and Maritime Labor in Camogli (1815–1914): Floating communities in the global world	0
The Milne Papers: The papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milne, Bt., K.C.B. (1806–1896), vol. 3, The Royal Navy and the American Civil War, 1862–1864	0
Daniel Albert Baugh 1931–2024	0
Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the ‘Gloucester’: A true Restoration tragedy Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the ‘Gloucester’: A true Restoration tragedy	0
War, Trade and the State: Anglo-Dutch conflict 1652–89 War, Trade and the State: Anglo-Dutch conflict 1652–89 , by D. Omrod and G. Rommelse (eds), Boydell & Brewer,	0
Sacred to Cook’s Immortal Name … : The original context and meaning of an ‘engraved portrait’ of Captain Cook	0
Years of Endurance: Life aboard the battlecruiser ‘Tiger’ 1914–16	0
Anson: Royal Navy commander and statesman, 1697–1762 Anson: Royal Navy commander and statesman, 1697–1762 by A. Bruce, Helion Publishing, 2023, £24.99 (pb) xi + 241 page	0
The Norwegian Merchant Fleet in the Second World War	0
The Marstrand Cannon: The earliest evidence of shipboard artillery in Europe?	0
A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age	0
Tracks on the Ocean: A history of trailblazing, maps, and maritime travel	0
Looking for Longitude: A cultural history	0
The English and French Navies, 1500–1650	0
The Royal Navy in the Cold War Years, 1966–1990: Retreat and revival	0
The Port of Hugli in Seventeenth-century Bengal	0
‘Nothing to Shew for his Tomb but a Wave’: Storms, shipwreck and the human cost of global trade in seventeenth-century broadside ballads	0
James Goldrick (1958–2023)	0
Rutters, Courses and Voyages: Navigation at sea in north-west Europe in the fifteenth century	0
The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the concept of sea power	0
On Wide Seas: The US Navy in the Jacksonian era	0
The Establishment and Development of Maritime Education in Georgia, 1876–1946	0
Voices from the Shoreline: The ancient and ingenious traditions of coastal fishing Voices from the Shoreline: The ancient and ingenious traditions of coastal fishing , b	0
The Ship Asunder: A maritime history of Britain in eleven vessels	0
Victory at Sea: Naval power and the transformation of the global order in World War II	0
Discovering Ideal Violence: A comparison of journals from Captain James Cook’s third Pacific voyage	0
Anson’s Navy: Building a fleet for empire 1744 to 1763	0
Editorial	0
Naval Interrogations of PoWs in the Black Sea War, 1914 and 1916	0
John Vernon Bartlett (1927–2021)	0
Editorial	0
The Sea: Nature and culture	0

Miss Morse at Portsmouth and Plymouth, 1807–1808	0
Sailing School: Navigating science and skill, 1550–1800	0
The Overseas Trade of British America: A narrative history The Overseas Trade of British America: A narrative history by T. M. Truxes, Yale University Press, 2021, £30 (	0
Nelson’s Examination for Lieutenant	0
Appreciation: Dr Peter V. Nash MA, Phd, FRSA, FSNR	0
William Burrell: A collector’s life	0
Water in North American Environmental History Water in North American Environmental History , by M. V. Melosi, Routledge, 2022, £135 (hb), £35.99 (pb), 304 pages, illust	0
‘Where is the Ship Which From the Ceiling Hung?’ Ghost Ships: The ship models missing from Scotland’s churches	0
A Deptford Ship for the House of Savoy? Uncovering the origin of the National Maritime Museum’s Ship Model SLR0436	0
Admiral Sir Kenneth Eaton (1934–2022)	0
Distant but Close Observers: The officers of the Argentine navy and the First World War	0
Danish Ships in the Canary Islands during the Second World War	0
Estudos de História da Náutica e das, Navegações de Alto-Mar	0
British Naval Intelligence Through the Twentieth Century	0
Graydon Read Henning 1936–2023	0
The Coastal Landscape of West Samos in the Seventh and Sixth Centuries BCE: Possible landing points and routes	0
Mastering the Worst of Trades: England’s early Africa companies and their traders, 1618–1672 Mastering the Worst of Trades: England’s early Africa companies and their traders, 1618–1672	0
Port Cities in Comparative Global History: A narrative review	0
The War for England’s Shores: S-Boats and the fight against British coastal convoys	0
Coals and Cables: The remarkable career of MV Dame Caroline Haslett	0
Fairfield: A shipyard success story 1834–2024	0
The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram: An Elizabethan sailor in Native North America	0
Warship 2023 Warship 2023 by J. Jordan (ed.), Osprey Publishing, 2023, ￡45 (hb) 224 pages., illustrations, bibliography, isbn 9781472857132	0
Ship Models from the Age of Sail: Building and enhancing commercial kits	0
The United States Navy in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa	0
Military Power and the Dutch Republic: War, trade, and the balance of power in Europe, 1648–1813 Military Power and the Dutch Republic: War, trade, and the balance of power in Europe, 1	0
The Power and the Glory: Royal Navy Fleet Reviews from earliest times to 2005	0
Spanish Warships in the Age of Sail 1700–1860: Design, construction, careers and fates	0
Seaforth World Naval Review 2024	0
The Development of Merchant Ship Composite Hull Construction in Britain, 1850–1880	0
Venetian Shipping: From the days of glory to decline, 1453–1571	0
British-built Passenger Ships: A statistical analysis	0
The Shipping Interests of the Beckwith Family of Colchester, 1816–1919	0
Normandy: The sailors’ story	0
Uncommon Courage: The yachtsmen volunteers of World War II	0
Frederick Leyland: A re-assessment of his background	0
The Windfall Battleships: ‘Agincourt’, ‘Canada’, ‘Erin’, ‘Eagle’ and the Balkan and Latin-American arms races	0
The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden, R. A., The Naturalist in H. M. S. ‘Alert’, 1875–1876 The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden, R. A., The Naturalist in H.	0
Italian and German Submarine Passage of the Straits of Gibraltar in the Second World War	0
Elizabeth’s Navy: Seventy years of the postwar Royal Navy Elizabeth’s Navy: Seventy years of the postwar Royal Navy by P. Brown, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, £45.00 (hb),	0
The Development of Crude Oil Tankers: A historical miscellany	0
‘They Have To Go To Greenland’: Russian whalers in Norway in 1726	0
The British Air Power Delusion 1906–1941	0
The British Shipbuilding Industry and the Container Ship, 1968–1990	0
Blowing Hot and Cold: Thermotank and the story of air conditioning at sea	0
The Naval Section of the Portuguese Legion, 1936–1944	0
Maritime Power and the Power of Money in Louis XIV’s France: Private finance, the contractor state and the French navy	0
William Simpson’s Depiction of Sidis, Lascars and Coolies aboard P&O Steamers	0
Armada: The Spanish enterprise and England’s deliverance in 1588 Armada: The Spanish enterprise and England’s deliverance in 1588 , by C. Martin and G. Parker, Yale Univ	0
Editorial	0
China’s Law of the Sea: The new rules of maritime order China’s Law of the Sea: The new rules of maritime order , by I. B. Kardon, Yale University Press, 2023, $40 (hb),	0
The Fabulous Flotilla: Scotland’s adventure on the rivers of Burma The Fabulous Flotilla: Scotland’s adventure on the rivers of Burma by P. StrachanWhittles Publishing,	0
The Magnetic Geometer of Henry Hall Sherwood, and the Scientific Ineptitude of the US Government, 1837–1838	0
Captain Inglis and his Tide Machines: The dodging tides of Port Adelaide, from South Australia to the Pacific War at Tarawa	0
Convoys: The British struggle against Napoleonic Europe and America	0
‘Annoyed Every Inch of Their Passage’: Admiral Lord Keith’s counter-invasion campaign, May 1803–August 1805	0
Between Privateering and Guerre d’escadre : The duke of Osuna’s naval policy, 1611–1620	0
Shipping on the Thames and the Port of London during the 1940s–1980s: A pictorial history	0
Total Undersea War: The evolutionary role of the snorkel in Dönitz’s U-boat fleet 1944–1945	0
The Last Slave Ships: New York and the end of the middle passage	0
The Solebay Tapestries: Threads of history	0
Onassis Business History, 1924–1975	0
A History of the Modern Chinese Navy, 1840–2020 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)	0
New Light on the Survivors of the Vergulde Draak, a VOC Ship Wrecked on the Australian Coast (1656)	0
Pacific Voyages: The story of sail in the Great Ocean Pacific Voyages: The story of sail in the Great Ocean by G. Miller, Douglas & McIntyre, 2023, CA$59.95 (hb), 25	0
An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean	0
Captain Richard Woodman (1944–2024)	0
Churchill’s Secret Chart Makers: The road to D-Day and beyond in Somerset, 1939–1945	0
That Vital, Dirty Cargo: East coast convoys 1939 to 1945	0
Zeeland Privateering Captains During the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, 1780–1784	0
African Navies: Historical and contemporary perspectives	0
August Lasczky and Sons: Painters of Baltic ships	0
Editorial	0
Is It Time to Let HMS Victory Go?	0
Tempest: The Royal Navy and the age of revolutions Tempest: The Royal Navy and the age of revolutions , by J. Davey, Yale University Press, 2023, £25/$35 (hb) xix + 426	0
Lieutenant Thomas Evans, Mr George Thomas and the survey of Liverpool	0
From Old Cannon to Iron Pigs: The introduction of Kentledge ballast in the early modern French navy	0
A Mighty Fleet and the King’s Power: The Isle of Man, AD 400 to 1265 A Mighty Fleet and the King’s Power: The Isle of Man, AD 400 to 1265 , by T. Clarkson, John Donald,	0
Tsushima, Japan’s Trafalgar: The voyage of the condemned fleet to the Straits of Korea Tsushima, Japan’s Trafalgar: The voyage of the condemned fleet to the Straits of Korea	0
The Wrecks of HM Frigates ‘Assurance’ (1753) and ‘Pomone’ (1811): Including the fascinating naval career of Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Barrie, KCB, KCH (1774–1841)	0

Shipboard Literary Cultures: Reading, writing, and performing at sea	0
Chatham Historic Dockyard: World power to resurgence	0
Nimitz at War: Command leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay	0
Attendance at the École Supérieure de Marine in Paris from 1900 to 1914	0
Rock Lighthouses of Britain and Ireland Rock Lighthouses of Britain and Ireland by C. NicholsonWhittles Publishing, 2023, £24.95 (pb) 320 pages, illustrations, photograp	0
Drieduizend jaar navigatie op de sterren: Mythevorming en geschiedenis	0
What Happened to the Battleship: 1945 to the present	0
The Cossack Mosquito Fleet in the Dnieper and Black Sea	0
Lesley Marion Richmond (1956–2022)	0
The British Navy in Eastern Waters: The Indian and Pacific Oceans The British Navy in Eastern Waters: The Indian and Pacific Oceans , by J. D. Grainger, The Boydell Pres	0
Adventurers: The improbable rise of the East India Company, 1550–1650 Adventurers: The improbable rise of the East India Company, 1550–1650 by D. HowarthYale University	0
Prediction, Prophecy or Speculation? The consequences of geopolitical navel-gazing when predicting future maritime developments	0
The Sinking of the Blücher: The battle of the Drøback Narrows April 1940 The Sinking of the Blücher: The battle of the Drøback Narrows April 1940 by G. Haarr and J. Meli	0
The Last Days of the Schooner America: A lost icon at the Annapolis warship factory	0
Out of the Depths: A history of shipwrecks Out of the Depths: A history of shipwrecks , by A. G. Jamieson, Reaktion Books Ltd, 2022, £25 (hb), 342 pages, illustrations,	0
Editorial	0
Editorial	0
Imperial Steam: Modernity on the sea route to India, 1837–1874	0
Revisiting the Brigantine Problem: The origins and development of eighteenth-century two-masted square-rigged ship types	0
The Sun King at Sea: Maritime art and galley slavery in Louis XIV’s France	0
Greenfield Shipyards and Modernization in the British Shipbuilding Industry and Elsewhere, 1900–1977	0
More than a Dictionary: Nikolaos Kourbellis’s English–Greek Maritime Dictionary	0
William James Lithgow (1934–2022)	0
The Figurehead of HMS Seringapatam	0
The Corsairs of Saint-Malo: Network organization of a merchant elite under the Ancien Regime	0
The Sturdy Incident, 1944: Collateral damage or forgotten war crime?	0
With Cat-like Tread: The subtle influence of personal networks in the Rogers voyage	0
The Bonny Landing: The anatomy of Black Africa’s first amphibious operation, July to September 1967	0
Mission of the Vanneau to the English Coast, 12–18 August 1787	0
Keeping a Puffer Afloat: The story of a small steamship	0
A Cargo of Slaves? Demosthenes 34.10	0
The Danish Frigate Niels Ebbesen’s Pursuit of the Scottish Trawler Red Crusader , 1961	0
The Voyages and Manifesto of William Fergusson, a Surgeon of the East India Company, 1731–1739; The Levant Voyage of the Blackham Galley (1696-1698): The sea journal of John Looker, ship’s surgeon	0
Maritime Men of the Asia–Pacific: True-blue internationals navigating labour rights, 1906–2006 Maritime Men of the Asia–Pacific: True-blue internationals navigating labour rights, 1906–	0
Atlantic Voyages: The East India Company and the British route to the East in the age of sail	0
Global Ocean of Knowledge, 1660–1860: Globalization and maritime knowledge in the Atlantic world	0
Historic Ship Models of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Kriegstein Collection	0
Editorial	0
The Early Voyages of the East India Company: A note on geographical and navigational knowledge	0
Gallant Officers and Benevolent Men: Royal Navy officers, voluntarism and the launch of the Shipwrecked Mariners Society in the early Victorian era	0
England’s Islands in a Sea of Troubles	0
T. A. & C. H. Walker: Shipbuilders, railway and civil engineering contractors; from Sudbrook to South America T. A. & C. H. Walker: Shipbuilders, railway and civil engineering c	0
Death on the Dvina: Lieutenant Roger Fitzherbert- Brockholes	0
USS Tuscarora and United States Naval Oceanography in the Post-Civil War Era	0
The Leaving of Halifax: The abrupt recall of Admiral Sir William Parker in 1801	0
From War to Peace: The conversion of naval vessels after two World Wars	0
‘A Ticklish Craft’: Viewing Britain’s empire from inside a birch-bark canoe in the eighteenth century	0
To the Java Sea: Selections from the diary, reports, and letters of Henry E. Eccles, 1940–1942	0
In Search of ‘Privileged Traders and Sly Foxes’: The Danish navy’s operations in the North Atlantic in the eighteenth century	0
The Wreck of the British Steamship Claverdale in the Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905	0
All Paws on Board: An analysis of the concept of the total institution and dog mascots on naval vessels during the twentieth century	0
Mr John Frembly RN	0
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the lost Franklin Arctic expedition	0
BP Shipping Pictorial: The golden years 1945–1975	0
Italian Assault Craft, 1940–1945: Human torpedoes and other special attack weapons	0
The Franklin Expedition Relics and Remains Found at Qavdlunaarsiorfik, Adelaide Peninsula, 1923 and 1924	0
Skeppssamhället: rang, roller och status på örlogsskepp under 1600-talet	0
Global Trade and the Shaping of English Freedom	0
The Price of Victory: A naval history of Britain, 1815–1945	0
The Ottoman Military Intelligence Department and Naval Intelligence, 1914–1918	0
The First Vanguard, 1586–1630	0
Sailing Alone: A history	0
Running the Gauntlet: Cargo liners under fire 1939–1945	0
Building Sailing Ships during a Shipping Slump	0
The Art of Naval Portraiture	0
Alexander (Sandy) Stephen (1927–2022)	0
Päijänteellä: Jyväskylän Veneseura ja sen edeltäjät [At Lake Päijänne: Jyväskylä Boat Club and its predecessors]	0
The Salt Roads: How fish made a culture	0
Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory	0
La Inteligencia en las Operaciones Navales de 1898: Consecuencias de una estrategia improvisada	0
From Rustic Fishing Boats to Steel Trawlers: The development of fishing vessels on the west coast of Sweden, 1850–1980	0
The Silver Waterfall: How America won the war in the Pacific at Midway	0
An Astrolabe from the Wreck of Santiago , 1585	0
Editorial	0
‘We Are Making No Sailors’: Apprenticeship and the British mercantile marine 1840–1914	0
Under Five Flags: Miguirditch Gumuchdjian, an Armenian shipowner of Constantinople and London 1900–1932	0
The Flag-waving Names of Ocean Liners	0
Bloody Orkney? A comparison of the perceptions held by sailors and the reality of leisure and recreational opportunities at Scapa Flow during the First World War	0
‘Sharp like cut iron’: Albrecht von Stosch and the beginning of naval wargaming in the German navy	0
Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom: A history of the British Shipbuilders Corporation	0
A Great and Rising Nation: Naval exploration and global empire in the early US Republic A Great and Rising Nation: Naval exploration and global empire in the early US Republic	0
The Endurance: Shackleton’s legendary Antarctic expedition The Endurance: Shackleton’s legendary Antarctic expedition , by C. Alexander, Seaforth Publishing, 2021, £16.9	0
British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1649–1860	0
Beyond Patriotic Phobias: Connections, cooperation and solidarity in the Peruvian-Chilean Pacific world	0
Mao’s Army Goes to Sea: The island campaigns and the founding of China’s navy Mao’s Army Goes to Sea: The island campaigns and the founding of China’s navy , by T. Yoshi	0
German Contributions to Solving the Longitude Problem in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	0
Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our depth Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our depth by M. TitlestadPalgrave Macmillan, 2022£49.99 (hb or pb), and Open Access (ebk) xv + 230 pa	0
Documents Relating to the Official Dutch Naval Visit to Cherbourg, 8–10 September 1786	0
The Wreck of HMS Sceptre and the Danish warship Oldenborg in Table Bay on 5 November 1799	0
Abandon Ship: The real story of the sinkings in the Falklands War	0
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by D. Graeber, Allen Lane Publishing, 2023, £18.99 (hb) xxix +175 pages, illust	0
The Social History of English Seamen, 1650–1815	0
Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-century British marine painting	0
Newfoundland Cod and English Piracy in the Early Seventeenth Century	0
The Bounty and Beyond: A textual and bibliographical investigation of William Bligh’s journals of the first breadfruit expedition The Bounty and Beyond: A textual and bibliographical in	0