OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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	4
Indian Figureheads: Carvings from Royal Navy ships built at Bombay	4
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	3
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
The Ocean Class of the Second World War	2
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
Shipwrecked: A true civil war story of mutinies, jailbreaks, blockade-running, and the slave trade	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
The Purser–Pharmacist Mate in the American Merchant Marine in the Second World War	1
The Myth of HMS Minden and ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’: Where did it originate?	1
Tony Pawlyn (1942–2024)	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
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
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
Don’t Swamp the Boat: Balancing requirements for the US Navy’s original six frigates	1
The Devil’s Highway: Urban anxieties and subaltern cultures in London’s sailortown, c. 1850–1900	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
Sailing Alone: A history	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
La Inteligencia en las Operaciones Navales de 1898: Consecuencias de una estrategia improvisada	0
A History of British Tramp Shipping, 1870–1914, vol. 1 , Entry, Enterprise, Formation and Early Firm Growth	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

Victory at Sea: Naval power and the transformation of the global order in World War II	0
‘We Are Making No Sailors’: Apprenticeship and the British mercantile marine 1840–1914	0
The Etymology and Early History of Skiff: International waters	0
Chaplains in the Imperial Russian Navy, 1890–1914	0
Navigation: Kupe and Cook	0
Warships of the Soviet Fleets 1939–1945, vol. 1 , Major Combatants	0
Sacred to Cook’s Immortal Name … : The original context and meaning of an ‘engraved portrait’ of Captain Cook	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 Sea: Nature and culture	0
The Endurance: Shackleton’s legendary Antarctic expedition The Endurance: Shackleton’s legendary Antarctic expedition , by C. Alexander, Seaforth Publishing, 2021, £16.9	0
Training, Diplomacy and Espionage: The curious cruise of HMS Cornwall , 1909	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
Shipwrecks of the United Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Table Bay, South Africa During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	0
Anglo-Swedish Commercial Connections and Diplomatic Relations in the Seventeenth Century	0
Shipping on the Thames and the Port of London during the 1940s–1980s: A pictorial history	0
Under Five Flags: Miguirditch Gumuchdjian, an Armenian shipowner of Constantinople and London 1900–1932	0
Shipboard Literary Cultures: Reading, writing, and performing at sea	0
Spanish Warships in the Age of Sail 1700–1860: Design, construction, careers and fates	0
With Cat-like Tread: The subtle influence of personal networks in the Rogers voyage	0
Empires of the Sea: A human history of the Indian Ocean world	0
An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean	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
From Old Cannon to Iron Pigs: The introduction of Kentledge ballast in the early modern French navy	0
The War for England’s Shores: S-Boats and the fight against British coastal convoys	0
Freedom Ship: The uncharted history of escaping slavery by sea	0
The Development of Crude Oil Tankers: A historical miscellany	0
Where Light in Darkness Lies: The story of the lighthouse	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
The British Air Power Delusion 1906–1941	0
The Crew of the German Auxiliary Cruiser Cap Trafalgar in Buenos Aires: Internment and captivity during the First World War	0
Years of Endurance: Life aboard the battlecruiser ‘Tiger’ 1914–16	0
The United States Navy in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa	0
USS Tuscarora and United States Naval Oceanography in the Post-Civil War Era	0
Normandy: The sailors’ story	0
Frank Fox (1945–2022)	0
The Salt Roads: How fish made a culture	0
Seaforth World Naval Review 2024	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
The Navy and Anglo-Scottish Union, 1603– 1707	0
The Ship Asunder: A maritime history of Britain in eleven vessels	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
Patronage and the British Navy, 1775–1815	0
Agamemnon’s Sailing Speeds and the Benefits of Coppering	0
Reilen en zeilen van de admiraliteit van Rotterdam in de jaren 1630–1640	0
The English and French Navies, 1500–1650	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
All Paws on Board: An analysis of the concept of the total institution and dog mascots on naval vessels during the twentieth century	0
The Achille Lauro Incident in Historical Context: Maritime hijacking as a political weapon 1961–1985	0
The Sturdy Incident, 1944: Collateral damage or forgotten war crime?	0
Abandon Ship: The real story of the sinkings in the Falklands War	0

Imperial Steam: Modernity on the sea route to India, 1837–1874	0
The Establishment and Development of Maritime Education in Georgia, 1876–1946	0
Blowing Hot and Cold: Thermotank and the story of air conditioning at sea	0
The Price of Victory: A naval history of Britain, 1815–1945	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
The Flag-waving Names of Ocean Liners	0
The Marstrand Cannon: The earliest evidence of shipboard artillery in Europe?	0
Building Sailing Ships during a Shipping Slump	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
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
African Navies: Historical and contemporary perspectives	0
Italian Assault Craft, 1940–1945: Human torpedoes and other special attack weapons	0
The Laird Rams: Britain’s ironclads built for the Confederacy, 1862–1923	0
Tracks on the Ocean: A history of trailblazing, maps, and maritime travel	0
Daniel Albert Baugh 1931–2024	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
William Burrell: A collector’s life	0
British-built Passenger Ships: A statistical analysis	0
The Solebay Tapestries: Threads of history	0
The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the concept of sea power	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
Drieduizend jaar navigatie op de sterren: Mythevorming en geschiedenis	0
Estudos de História da Náutica e das, Navegações de Alto-Mar	0
The Bonny Landing: The anatomy of Black Africa’s first amphibious operation, July to September 1967	0
Anson’s Navy: Building a fleet for empire 1744 to 1763	0
Fortune’s Bazaar: The making of Hong Kong	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
Soldier of Fortuna : The final voyage of a Spanish corsair in King George's War, 1748	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
Coals and Cables: The remarkable career of MV Dame Caroline Haslett	0
The Royal Navy in the Cold War Years, 1966–1990: Retreat and revival	0
Uncommon Courage: The yachtsmen volunteers of World War II	0
Coastal Trade and Maritime Communities in Elizabethan England	0
Barclay Curle & Co. Ltd, Britain’s First Ocean-going Motor Ship, MS Jutlandia , and the Scottish Shale Oil Industry	0
A History of Ship Launches and Their Ceremonies	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
‘A Ticklish Craft’: Viewing Britain’s empire from inside a birch-bark canoe in the eighteenth century	0
Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom: A history of the British Shipbuilders Corporation	0
The Silver Waterfall: How America won the war in the Pacific at Midway	0
Graydon Read Henning 1936–2023	0
The Invention and Early Use of the Mariner’s Astrolabe	0
The Sun King at Sea: Maritime art and galley slavery in Louis XIV’s France	0
The Windfall Battleships: ‘Agincourt’, ‘Canada’, ‘Erin’, ‘Eagle’ and the Balkan and Latin-American arms races	0
On Wide Seas: The US Navy in the Jacksonian era	0
Running the Gauntlet: Cargo liners under fire 1939–1945	0
The Danish Frigate Niels Ebbesen’s Pursuit of the Scottish Trawler Red Crusader , 1961	0
Editorial	0
Fairfield: A shipyard success story 1834–2024	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
The First Vanguard, 1586–1630	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
To the Java Sea: Selections from the diary, reports, and letters of Henry E. Eccles, 1940–1942	0
Global Ocean of Knowledge, 1660–1860: Globalization and maritime knowledge in the Atlantic world	0
The Last Days of the Schooner America: A lost icon at the Annapolis warship factory	0
Naval Interrogations of PoWs in the Black Sea War, 1914 and 1916	0
The Power and the Glory: Royal Navy Fleet Reviews from earliest times to 2005	0
Editorial	0
The Early Voyages of the East India Company: A note on geographical and navigational knowledge	0
Tilly Kettle’s Portrait of Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Cornish, Captain Richard Kempenfelt and Thomas Parry	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
Zeeland Privateering Captains During the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, 1780–1784	0
Port Cities in Comparative Global History: A narrative review	0
The Historical Evolution of the Grand Canal Shipbuilding Industry in China: A focus on the Li Canal section in Jiangsu Province from the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty	0
Editorial	0
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the lost Franklin Arctic expedition	0
Ideologies of Western Naval Power, c.1500–1815	0
William Simpson’s Depiction of Sidis, Lascars and Coolies aboard P&O Steamers	0
Maritime Power and the Power of Money in Louis XIV’s France: Private finance, the contractor state and the French navy	0
The Norwegian Merchant Fleet in the Second World War	0
Editorial	0
Time to Talk Turkey: The British Naval and German military missions to the Ottoman Empire in 1912–14	0
More than a Dictionary: Nikolaos Kourbellis’s English–Greek Maritime Dictionary	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
Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory	0
Atlantic Voyages: The East India Company and the British route to the East in the age of sail	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
Keeping a Puffer Afloat: The story of a small steamship	0
A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age	0
Convoys: The British struggle against Napoleonic Europe and America	0
Captain Richard Woodman (1944–2024)	0

Editorial	0
The Destroyer USS ‘Kidd’: Anatomy of the ship	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
Churchill’s Secret Chart Makers: The road to D-Day and beyond in Somerset, 1939–1945	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 Naval Mutinies of 1798: The Irish plot to seize the Channel Fleet	0
Italian and German Submarine Passage of the Straits of Gibraltar in the Second World War	0
Alexander (Sandy) Stephen (1927–2022)	0
The Development of Merchant Ship Composite Hull Construction in Britain, 1850–1880	0
Sailing Shipping and Maritime Labor in Camogli (1815–1914): Floating communities in the global world	0
The Ottoman Military Intelligence Department and Naval Intelligence, 1914–1918	0
Editorial	0
Between Privateering and Guerre d’escadre : The duke of Osuna’s naval policy, 1611–1620	0
Gallant Officers and Benevolent Men: Royal Navy officers, voluntarism and the launch of the Shipwrecked Mariners Society in the early Victorian era	0
Admiral Sir Kenneth Eaton (1934–2022)	0
A Deptford Ship for the House of Savoy? Uncovering the origin of the National Maritime Museum’s Ship Model SLR0436	0
August Lasczky and Sons: Painters of Baltic ships	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 British Shipbuilding Industry and the Container Ship, 1968–1990	0
Beyond Patriotic Phobias: Connections, cooperation and solidarity in the Peruvian-Chilean Pacific world	0
An Astrolabe from the Wreck of Santiago , 1585	0
Lesley Marion Richmond (1956–2022)	0
The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram: An Elizabethan sailor in Native North America	0
German Contributions to Solving the Longitude Problem in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	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 Last Days of HMS ‘Warspite’ in Cornwall 1947–1956	0
Ship Models from the Age of Sail: Building and enhancing commercial kits	0
Discovering Ideal Violence: A comparison of journals from Captain James Cook’s third Pacific voyage	0
Editorial	0
Distant Shores: Colonial encounters on China's maritime frontier	0
Tsushima	0
The Coastal Landscape of West Samos in the Seventh and Sixth Centuries BCE: Possible landing points and routes	0
Documents Relating to the Official Dutch Naval Visit to Cherbourg, 8–10 September 1786	0
Sons of the Waves: The common sailor in the heroic age of sail, 1740–1840 Sons of the Waves: The common sailor in the heroic age of sail, 1740–1840 by S. Taylor, Yale Un	0
Recovering Naval Power: Henry Maydman and the revival of the Royal Navy	0
Maritime Animals: Ships, species, stories	0
Looking for Longitude: A cultural history	0
Prediction, Prophecy or Speculation? The consequences of geopolitical navel-gazing when predicting future maritime developments	0
Appreciation: Dr Peter V. Nash MA, Phd, FRSA, FSNR	0
Editorial	0
Venetian Shipping: From the days of glory to decline, 1453–1571	0
The Final Years of HMS Beagle , 1845–70	0
British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1649–1860	0
Warship 2023 Warship 2023 by J. Jordan (ed.), Osprey Publishing, 2023, ￡45 (hb) 224 pages., illustrations, bibliography, isbn 9781472857132	0
The Cossack Mosquito Fleet in the Dnieper and Black Sea	0
The Figurehead of HMS Seringapatam	0
Newfoundland Cod and English Piracy in the Early Seventeenth Century	0
Vasa II: Rigging and sailing a Swedish warship of 1628, part I: The material remains and archaeological context	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
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
The Naval Government of Newfoundland in the French Wars, 1793–1815	0
Death on the Dvina: Lieutenant Roger Fitzherbert- Brockholes	0
Danish Ships in the Canary Islands during the Second World War	0
In Search of ‘Privileged Traders and Sly Foxes’: The Danish navy’s operations in the North Atlantic in the eighteenth century	0
Editorial	0
The Port of Hugli in Seventeenth-century Bengal	0
‘Annoyed Every Inch of Their Passage’: Admiral Lord Keith’s counter-invasion campaign, May 1803–August 1805	0
Privilege, Economy, and State in Old Regime France: Marine insurance, war and the Atlantic Empire under Louis XIV	0
Nelson’s Examination for Lieutenant	0
‘Sharp like cut iron’: Albrecht von Stosch and the beginning of naval wargaming in the German navy	0
Distant but Close Observers: The officers of the Argentine navy and the First World War	0
John Lenthall: The life of a naval constructor	0
Richard Hakluyt: A bibliography 1580–1588 with essays on the suppression of the voyage to Cadiz in Hakluyt’s ‘Principal Navigations’ and Hakluyt and the East India Company	0
Rutters, Courses and Voyages: Navigation at sea in north-west Europe in the fifteenth century	0
Frederick Leyland: A re-assessment of his background	0
Skeppssamhället: rang, roller och status på örlogsskepp under 1600-talet	0
Nimitz at War: Command leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay	0
Captain Inglis and his Tide Machines: The dodging tides of Port Adelaide, from South Australia to the Pacific War at Tarawa	0
Editorial	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
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
The Leaving of Halifax: The abrupt recall of Admiral Sir William Parker in 1801	0
The Franklin Expedition Relics and Remains Found at Qavdlunaarsiorfik, Adelaide Peninsula, 1923 and 1924	0
‘Flying the late King’s Colours’: Royalist privateering during the First Anglo-Dutch War, 1652–1654	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
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
India's Naval Diplomacy: Contours and constraints	0
James Goldrick (1958–2023)	0
The Last Slave Ships: New York and the end of the middle passage	0
Nelson’s Pathfinders: A forgotten story in the triumph of British sea power	0
That Vital, Dirty Cargo: East coast convoys 1939 to 1945	0
The Art of Naval Portraiture	0
The Naval Section of the Portuguese Legion, 1936–1944	0
Knight of the North Atlantic: Baron Siegfried von Forstner and the War Patrols of ‘U-402’, 1941–1943	0
From War to Peace: The conversion of naval vessels after two World Wars	0
What Happened to the Battleship: 1945 to the present	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
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
Gujarat Textiles and Indian Ocean Trade	0
Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea	0
BP Shipping Pictorial: The golden years 1945–1975	0
Onassis Business History, 1924–1975	0
Revisiting the Brigantine Problem: The origins and development of eighteenth-century two-masted square-rigged ship types	0
Chatham Historic Dockyard: World power to resurgence	0
Mr John Frembly RN	0