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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Hitler’s Attack U-boats: The Kriegsmarine’s WWII Submarine Strike Force	4
The Ocean Class of the Second World War	2
Royal Yachts Under Sail Royal Yachts Under Sail by B. Lavery, Seaforth, Barnsley, 2022, £50 (hb), 208 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index, ISBN 9781399092913	1
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	1
Indian Figureheads: Carvings from Royal Navy ships built at Bombay	1
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	1
The Purser–Pharmacist Mate in the American Merchant Marine in the Second World War	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
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
Shipwrecked: A true civil war story of mutinies, jailbreaks, blockade-running, and the slave trade	1
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	1
The Tyne Coal Keel: A unique British watercraft, 1400–1890	1
Tony Pawlyn (1942–2024)	1
A. C. F. David (1924–2021)	1
Navigating by the Southern Cross: A history of the European discovery and exploration of Australia	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
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	1
The Silk Dress and the Shipwreck: A seventeenth-century wreck near Texel	1
Don’t Swamp the Boat: Balancing requirements for the US Navy’s original six frigates	1
The ‘Prince Royal of Denmark’s Yacht’: A career in royal, naval and whaling service, 1785–1837	1
The Devil’s Highway: Urban anxieties and subaltern cultures in London’s sailortown, c. 1850–1900	1
British Submarines in the Cold War Era	0
USS Tuscarora and United States Naval Oceanography in the Post-Civil War Era	0
Warship 2023 Warship 2023 by J. Jordan (ed.), Osprey Publishing, 2023, ￡45 (hb) 224 pages., illustrations, bibliography, isbn 9781472857132	0

Privilege, Economy, and State in Old Regime France: Marine insurance, war and the Atlantic Empire under Louis XIV	0
Coals and Cables: The remarkable career of MV Dame Caroline Haslett	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
A Cargo of Slaves? Demosthenes 34.10	0
Venetian Shipping: From the days of glory to decline, 1453–1571	0
An Astrolabe from the Wreck of Santiago , 1585	0
The Cossack Mosquito Fleet in the Dnieper and Black Sea	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
Fairfield: A shipyard success story 1834–2024	0
The Figurehead of HMS Seringapatam	0
The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram: An Elizabethan sailor in Native North America	0
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	0
The United States Navy in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa	0
The Shipping Interests of the Beckwith Family of Colchester, 1816–1919	0
The Development of Crude Oil Tankers: A historical miscellany	0
Captain Richard Woodman (1944–2024)	0
The Sun King at Sea: Maritime art and galley slavery in Louis XIV’s France	0
Maritime Animals: Ships, species, stories	0
Editorial	0
Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-century British marine painting	0
The Power and the Glory: Royal Navy Fleet Reviews from earliest times to 2005	0
The Rise and Fall of the United Kingdom Shipbreaking Industry from 1945 to 1995	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
Frederick Leyland: A re-assessment of his background	0
Agamemnon’s Sailing Speeds and the Benefits of Coppering	0
Nimitz at War: Command leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay	0
Skeppssamhället: rang, roller och status på örlogsskepp under 1600-talet	0
Sailing Shipping and Maritime Labor in Camogli (1815–1914): Floating communities in the global world	0
Keeping a Puffer Afloat: The story of a small steamship	0
Port Cities in Comparative Global History: A narrative review	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
Zeeland Privateering Captains During the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, 1780–1784	0
The Early Voyages of the East India Company: A note on geographical and navigational knowledge	0
The Etymology and Early History of Skiff: International waters	0
A Liverpool Shipping Line: Ocean Steam Ship Company Limited’s shipbuilding experience, 1962–1978	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
‘Rosy’ Wemyss Admiral of the Fleet: The man who created Armistice Day	0
The Norwegian Merchant Fleet in the Second World War	0
Convoys: The British struggle against Napoleonic Europe and America	0
The First Vanguard, 1586–1630	0
‘Flying the late King’s Colours’: Royalist privateering during the First Anglo-Dutch War, 1652–1654	0
The Last Slave Ships: New York and the end of the middle passage	0
Shipping on the Thames and the Port of London during the 1940s–1980s: A pictorial history	0
Danish Ships in the Canary Islands during the Second World War	0
The Price of Victory: A naval history of Britain, 1815–1945	0
August Lasczky and Sons: Painters of Baltic ships	0
Pieter Adriaensz Blanckert: Another survivor of the Liefde’s voyage to Japan	0
Editorial	0
Italian Assault Craft, 1940–1945: Human torpedoes and other special attack weapons	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

Alexander (Sandy) Stephen (1927–2022)	0
The Marstrand Cannon: The earliest evidence of shipboard artillery in Europe?	0
Discovering Ideal Violence: A comparison of journals from Captain James Cook’s third Pacific voyage	0
Running the Gauntlet: Cargo liners under fire 1939–1945	0
To the Java Sea: Selections from the diary, reports, and letters of Henry E. Eccles, 1940–1942	0
From Rustic Fishing Boats to Steel Trawlers: The development of fishing vessels on the west coast of Sweden, 1850–1980	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
Imperial Steam: Modernity on the sea route to India, 1837–1874	0
From Old Cannon to Iron Pigs: The introduction of Kentledge ballast in the early modern French navy	0
Between Privateering and Guerre d’escadre : The duke of Osuna’s naval policy, 1611–1620	0
‘We Are Making No Sailors’: Apprenticeship and the British mercantile marine 1840–1914	0
A Deptford Ship for the House of Savoy? Uncovering the origin of the National Maritime Museum’s Ship Model SLR0436	0
Spanish Warships in the Age of Sail 1700–1860: Design, construction, careers and fates	0
Onassis Business History, 1924–1975	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 Sea: Nature and culture	0
Chatham Historic Dockyard: World power to resurgence	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
The Coastal Landscape of West Samos in the Seventh and Sixth Centuries BCE: Possible landing points and routes	0
Tilly Kettle’s Portrait of Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Cornish, Captain Richard Kempenfelt and Thomas Parry	0
Editorial	0
Abandon Ship: The real story of the sinkings in the Falklands War	0
Greenfield Shipyards and Modernization in the British Shipbuilding Industry and Elsewhere, 1900–1977	0
Lesley Marion Richmond (1956–2022)	0
British-built Passenger Ships: A statistical analysis	0
‘Where is the Ship Which From the Ceiling Hung?’ Ghost Ships: The ship models missing from Scotland’s churches	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 British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the battle for a national strategy	0
Appreciation: Dr Peter V. Nash MA, Phd, FRSA, FSNR	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
The Bonny Landing: The anatomy of Black Africa’s first amphibious operation, July to September 1967	0
Graydon Read Henning 1936–2023	0
Suppressing Piracy in the Early Eighteenth Century: Pirates, merchants and British imperial authority in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans	0
The Sturdy Incident, 1944: Collateral damage or forgotten war crime?	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
More than a Dictionary: Nikolaos Kourbellis’s English–Greek Maritime Dictionary	0
His Royal Highness the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921–2021)	0
Knight of the North Atlantic: Baron Siegfried von Forstner and the War Patrols of ‘U-402’, 1941–1943	0
Reilen en zeilen van de admiraliteit van Rotterdam in de jaren 1630–1640	0
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	0
‘Sharp like cut iron’: Albrecht von Stosch and the beginning of naval wargaming in the German navy	0
Mission of the Vanneau to the English Coast, 12–18 August 1787	0
George Hogg (1935–2021)	0
William Simpson’s Depiction of Sidis, Lascars and Coolies aboard P&O Steamers	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
The Windfall Battleships: ‘Agincourt’, ‘Canada’, ‘Erin’, ‘Eagle’ and the Balkan and Latin-American arms races	0
Tsushima	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
Did Steam Make Shipping Safer? Evidence from the British Coastal Bulk Trades	0
Gallant Officers and Benevolent Men: Royal Navy officers, voluntarism and the launch of the Shipwrecked Mariners Society in the early Victorian era	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
A History of the Modern Chinese Navy, 1840–2020 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)	0
African Navies: Historical and contemporary perspectives	0
Norwegian Shipping in the Twentieth Century: Norway’s successful navigation of the world’s most global industry	0
The English and French Navies, 1500–1650	0
The Naval Section of the Portuguese Legion, 1936–1944	0
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh’s Interest in Maritime History and Ship Preservation	0
Distant but Close Observers: The officers of the Argentine navy and the First World War	0
The Leaving of Halifax: The abrupt recall of Admiral Sir William Parker in 1801	0
Rutters, Courses and Voyages: Navigation at sea in north-west Europe in the fifteenth century	0
Italian and German Submarine Passage of the Straits of Gibraltar in the Second World War	0
Editorial	0
Sacred to Cook’s Immortal Name … : The original context and meaning of an ‘engraved portrait’ of Captain Cook	0
William James Lithgow (1934–2022)	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
Mr John Frembly RN	0
New Light on the Survivors of the Vergulde Draak, a VOC Ship Wrecked on the Australian Coast (1656)	0
England’s Islands in a Sea of Troubles	0
Naval Interrogations of PoWs in the Black Sea War, 1914 and 1916	0
George Camocke’s 1718 Proposal of a Jacobite–Pirate Alliance	0
Nelson’s Examination for Lieutenant	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
British Naval Intelligence Through the Twentieth Century	0
The Wreck of HMS Sceptre and the Danish warship Oldenborg in Table Bay on 5 November 1799	0
An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean	0
Sailing School: Navigating science and skill, 1550–1800	0
What Happened to the Battleship: 1945 to the present	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
‘Annoyed Every Inch of Their Passage’: Admiral Lord Keith’s counter-invasion campaign, May 1803–August 1805	0
Anson’s Navy: Building a fleet for empire 1744 to 1763	0

Editorial	0
Years of Endurance: Life aboard the battlecruiser ‘Tiger’ 1914–16	0
Building Sailing Ships during a Shipping Slump	0
The Development of Merchant Ship Composite Hull Construction in Britain, 1850–1880	0
Jeopardy of Every Wind: The biography of Captain Thomas Bowrey	0
‘A Ticklish Craft’: Viewing Britain’s empire from inside a birch-bark canoe in the eighteenth century	0
BP Shipping Pictorial: The golden years 1945–1975	0
Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea	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
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
Operation Rising Sun: The sinking of Japan’s secret submarine ‘I-52’	0
Drieduizend jaar navigatie op de sterren: Mythevorming en geschiedenis	0
Päijänteellä: Jyväskylän Veneseura ja sen edeltäjät [At Lake Päijänne: Jyväskylä Boat Club and its predecessors]	0
Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom: A history of the British Shipbuilders Corporation	0
Arctic Convoys: Bletchley Park and the war for the seas	0
Editorial	0
Ann Savours (1927–2022)	0
Daniel Albert Baugh 1931–2024	0
Prediction, Prophecy or Speculation? The consequences of geopolitical navel-gazing when predicting future maritime developments	0
The Silver Waterfall: How America won the war in the Pacific at Midway	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
Editorial	0
William Pratt of Greenwich (1717–95): Ship’s carpenter and painter	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
Revisiting the Brigantine Problem: The origins and development of eighteenth-century two-masted square-rigged ship types	0
Shipboard Literary Cultures: Reading, writing, and performing at sea	0
Dunkirk and the Little Ships	0
Newfoundland Cod and English Piracy in the Early Seventeenth Century	0
The Endurance: Shackleton’s legendary Antarctic expedition The Endurance: Shackleton’s legendary Antarctic expedition , by C. Alexander, Seaforth Publishing, 2021, £16.9	0
The Danish Frigate Niels Ebbesen’s Pursuit of the Scottish Trawler Red Crusader , 1961	0
A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age	0
The Social History of English Seamen, 1650–1815	0
Time to Talk Turkey: The British Naval and German military missions to the Ottoman Empire in 1912–14	0
Mutiny on the Spanish Main: HMS ‘Hermione’ and the Royal Navy’s revenge	0
Attendance at the École Supérieure de Marine in Paris from 1900 to 1914	0
Ship Models from the Age of Sail: Building and enhancing commercial kits	0
Ideologies of Western Naval Power, c.1500–1815	0
Anglo-Swedish Commercial Connections and Diplomatic Relations in the Seventeenth Century	0
Victory at Sea: Naval power and the transformation of the global order in World War II	0
Jaap R. Bruijn (1938–2022)	0
Editorial	0
Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory	0
Eric J. Grove (1948–2021)	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
Documents Relating to the Official Dutch Naval Visit to Cherbourg, 8–10 September 1786	0
In Search of ‘Privileged Traders and Sly Foxes’: The Danish navy’s operations in the North Atlantic in the eighteenth century	0
Global Ocean of Knowledge, 1660–1860: Globalization and maritime knowledge in the Atlantic world	0
Normandy: The sailors’ story	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
With Cat-like Tread: The subtle influence of personal networks in the Rogers voyage	0
The Corsairs of Saint-Malo: Network organization of a merchant elite under the Ancien Regime	0
The Salt Roads: How fish made a culture	0
Editorial	0
The Clydeside Cabal: The influence of Lord Weir, Sir James Lithgow, and Sir Andrew Rae Duncan on naval and defence policy, around 1918–1940	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
John Lenthall: The life of a naval constructor	0
The Ship Asunder: A maritime history of Britain in eleven vessels	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
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the lost Franklin Arctic expedition	0
Atlantic Voyages: The East India Company and the British route to the East in the age of sail	0
Total Undersea War: The evolutionary role of the snorkel in Dönitz’s U-boat fleet 1944–1945	0
Looking for Longitude: A cultural history	0
That Vital, Dirty Cargo: East coast convoys 1939 to 1945	0
Castaways in Question: A story of British naval interrogators from WW1 to denazification	0
James Goldrick (1958–2023)	0
Johannes Holst: Seascape artist	0
Editorial	0
On Wide Seas: The US Navy in the Jacksonian era	0
‘They Have To Go To Greenland’: Russian whalers in Norway in 1726	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
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
Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons campaign, November 1942–March 1943	0
Destroyer ‘Cossack’: Detailed in the original builders’ plans	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
The Colonial Naval Defence Act 1865 and its Impact in Australia	0
Editorial	0
Seaforth World Naval Review 2024	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
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
German Contributions to Solving the Longitude Problem in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	0
Under Five Flags: Miguirditch Gumuchdjian, an Armenian shipowner of Constantinople and London 1900–1932	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
Driven Mad by the Sea Serpent: The strange case of Captain George Drevar	0
Admiral Sir Kenneth Eaton (1934–2022)	0
Historic Ship Models of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Kriegstein Collection	0
William Burrell: A collector’s life	0
The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the concept of sea power	0
The Solebay Tapestries: Threads of history	0
British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1649–1860	0
The British Shipbuilding Industry and the Container Ship, 1968–1990	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
Lieutenant Thomas Evans, Mr George Thomas and the survey of Liverpool	0
Estudos de História da Náutica e das, Navegações de Alto-Mar	0
From War to Peace: The conversion of naval vessels after two World Wars	0
Uncommon Courage: The yachtsmen volunteers of World War II	0