A Royal Navy 28 gun frigate c1794

Maritime history

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Episode 2The Tudor heyday of Henry VIII’s warship. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 1Raising the wreck. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Return of the Viking raiders. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A spare anchor sits in its well on the forepeek of the shipwrecked Titanic.

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From Terror to Titanic: 7 famous shipwrecks

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The sinking of the Gloucester as depicted in a c1682 painting

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Why the Gloucester might be the most important shipwreck since the Mary Rose. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Discovering a lost royal battleship. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victoria Drummond, Britain's first female marine engineer. Also seen is her ancestral home, Megginch Castle; a Second World War Allied convoy; Mount Etna, which she encountered on one voyage; and a Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery at Sea, similar to the one that Drummond received in 1941

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Victoria Drummond: trailblazing ship's engineer and war hero. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Midway: why America won the WW2 naval battle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edwardian

QuizHow much do you know about Titanic?

An illustration of a Soviet warship inside a Pepsi bottle

20th Century

Q&AIs it true that Pepsi briefly owned Soviet warships?

Robert Ballard with an image of Titanic’s upper deck

20th Century

TitanicWhen & where was the wreck finally discovered?

Newspaper boy with news of the Titanic disaster, 14 April 1912

Edwardian

TitanicWhat happened after the sinking?

A depiction of Titanic’s final moments, as the ship sinks and passengers watch from a lifeboat

Edwardian

TitanicWhen did it sink & how long did it take?

US socialite Margaret Brown, who posthumously became known as the ‘Unsinkable Molly Brown’ following her Titanic experiences.

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Titanic8 stories of passengers who sailed on the liner. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Titanic in dry doc before it was launched

Edwardian

TitanicWhen and how was the ship built?

A vintage photo of the RMS Titantic departing Southampton on 10 April 1912

20th Century

Your history guide to RMS Titanic, plus 12 fascinating facts about the disaster

A painting of the Coniston, a ship that befell tragedy

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Q&AWhat is the greatest mishap caused by someone not realising the clocks had moved forward or back?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stuart

Queen Anne’s Revenge: why was Blackbeard's flagship named after the Stuart queen?

Blackbeard, real name Edward Teach, seen standing on a dock with fuses in his beard

Stuart

Blackbeard: dastardly sea-devil or kind pirate?

Barbary pirates Oruç and Hayreddin Barbarossa, the siblings who famously captured Algiers from the Spanish in 1516

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Barbary pirates: the Muslim corsairs and their role in the slave trade

Henry Avery stands on the shore holding a cutlass, while his ship Fancy battles the Ganj-i-Sawai in the background

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The real pirates of the Caribbean: your guide to Nassau's pirate republic

Henry Morgan on ship's deck in battle taking a hostage

Stuart

Q&ADid pirates really live on the island of Tortuga?

Gentleman pirate Stede Bonnet is hanged from the gallows

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Hunting pirates: how piracy's golden age came to an end. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read holding cutlasses

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Anne Bonny and Mary Read: the deadly female pirate duo

Map showing Sir Francis Drake's privateering fleet attacking Ribeira Grande the capital of Santiago

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Privateers, buccaneers and corsairs: why not all pirates were created equal

A pirate ship flying the Jolly Roger closes in on another vessel during a storm

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The golden age of piracy: when pirates ruled the waves

Captain Edward Teach, better known as 'Blackbeard', a pirate who plundered the coasts of the West Indies, North Carolina and Virginia. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The most famous and despicable pirates from history

The Jolly Roger, a black flag showing a skuyll and crossbones. (Photo by Henry Guttmann Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Q&ADid all pirates fly the Jolly Roger?

A pirate uses his cutlass to force a bound and blindfolded man to walk the plank

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Q&AWas walking the plank a real pirate punishment?

Pirates burying a treasure chest on a beach as their captain looks on

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Q&AX marks the spot: did pirates bury their treasure?

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