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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Figureheads and Symbolism Between the Medieval and the Modern: The ship Griffin or Gribshunden, one of the last Sea Serpents?	6
The Periplus of Pseudo-Skylax and its Relationship with Earlier Nautical Knowledge	2
Bellingshausen in Britain: Supplying the Russian Antarctic expedition, 1819	2
The Evolution of Sail Training from the Nineteenth Century to the 1980s	2
Attendance at the École Supérieure de Marine in Paris from 1900 to 1914	2
‘We Do Not Want to Be Too Hard on the Norwegians’: Sterling balances and rebuilding the Norwegian merchant shipping fleet, 1945–1950	2
Early Sixteenth-century Shipbuilding in Mexico: Dimensions and tonnages of the vessels designed for Pacific Ocean navigation	1
Lieutenant Thomas Evans, Mr George Thomas and the survey of Liverpool	1
German Contributions to Solving the Longitude Problem in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	1
New Research into the History, Theory and Practice of Naval Wargaming	1
Abolition, the West India Colonies and the Troubling Case of Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, 1807–1823	1
Indian Figureheads: Carvings from Royal Navy ships built at Bombay	1
Portugal and the Spanish Civil War at Sea, 1936–1939	1
The Dummett Freighter: A nineteenth-century log sailing canoe from northeastern Florida	1
From Rustic Fishing Boats to Steel Trawlers: The development of fishing vessels on the west coast of Sweden, 1850–1980	1
‘I Did Not Wish the Younker to be Favoured’: Reconsidering Nelson’s examination for lieutenant	1
The Fishing Sector in the Atlantic Oceanic Islands and its Role in the Economy of the Canarian Archipelago under the Ancien Régime	1
A History of the Modern Chinese Navy, 1840–2020 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)	1
Naval Interrogations of PoWs in the Black Sea War, 1914 and 1916	1
Dutch Naval Decline and British Sea-power Identity in the Eighteenth Century	1
The Determination of the Ship’s Speed in History and the Earliest Discussion of the ‘Dutchman’s Log’	1
The Monster from Elba: Napoleon’s escape reconsidered	1
Driven Mad by the Sea Serpent: The strange case of Captain George Drevar	1
The Marstrand Cannon: The earliest evidence of shipboard artillery in Europe?	1
Editorial	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
Knight of the North Atlantic: Baron Siegfried von Forstner and the War Patrols of ‘U-402’, 1941–1943	0
Venetian Shipping: From the days of glory to decline, 1453–1571	0
Reilen en zeilen van de admiraliteit van Rotterdam in de jaren 1630–1640	0
Warship 2020	0
The Master Shipwright’s Secrets: How Charles II built the Restoration navy	0
Kendall’s Longitude	0
The Company Fortress: Military engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638–1795	0
Recruiting the Royal Naval Coast Volunteers in Britain and Ireland, 1854–6	0
Peter N. Davies (1927–2020)	0
To the Java Sea: Selections from the diary, reports, and letters of Henry E. Eccles, 1940–1942	0
The Fourth Duke of Portland’s Pantaloon (1831–1852): Private yacht, experimental ‘brig sloop of war’ and slave-ship hunter	0
Editorial	0
Chasing the ‘Bounty’: The voyages of the ‘Pandora’ and the ‘Matavy’	0
The Wreck of HMS Sceptre and the Danish warship Oldenborg in Table Bay on 5 November 1799	0
Shipping on the Thames and the Port of London during the 1940s–1980s: A pictorial history	0
Ships of the Chester River: Shipbuilding on the Dee from Chester to the Point of Ayr 1800– 1942	0
Drieduizend jaar navigatie op de sterren: Mythevorming en geschiedenis	0
In Search of ‘Privileged Traders and Sly Foxes’: The Danish navy’s operations in the North Atlantic in the eighteenth century	0
The Kaiser’s U-Boat Assault on America: Germany’s great war gamble in the First World War	0
Britain’s Island Fortresses: Defence of the empire 1756–1956	0
Editorial	0
Port Cities in Comparative Global History: A narrative review	0
Englishmen at Sea: Labour and the nation at the dawn of empire, 1570–1630	0
Heroes of Coastal Command: The RAF’s maritime war 1939–1945	0
Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom: A history of the British Shipbuilders Corporation	0
Revisiting the Brigantine Problem: The origins and development of eighteenth-century two-masted square-rigged ship types	0
Anatomy of the Ship: The battleship USS ‘Iowa’	0
George Hogg (1935–2021)	0
Norse Sea Runes (brimrúnar) in the Viking Age and Beyond	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
The Sea: Nature and culture	0
The Russian Baltic Fleet in the Time of War and Revolution 1914–1918	0
Solving the Oneida Question: Anglo-American relations during a public outcry	0
Abandon Ship: The real story of the sinkings in the Falklands War	0
Warship Builders: An industrial history of naval shipbuilding, 1922–1945	0
Sighted Sub – Sank Same: The United States Navy’s air campaign against the U-boat	0
Castaways in Question: A story of British naval interrogators from WW1 to denazification	0
The Final Weeks of Service and Wreck of PS Comet, 1820	0
Gallant Officers and Benevolent Men: Royal Navy officers, voluntarism and the launch of the Shipwrecked Mariners Society in the early Victorian era	0
Eric J. Grove (1948–2021)	0
Sovereign of the Seas 1637: A reconstruction of the most powerful warship of its day	0
The Wreck of the British Steamship Claverdale in the Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905	0
Päijänteellä: Jyväskylän Veneseura ja sen edeltäjät [At Lake Päijänne: Jyväskylä Boat Club and its predecessors]	0
An Unnecessary Ship Loss	0
What Happened to the Battleship: 1945 to the present	0
Stormflod 1825	0
Taranto and Naval Air Warfare in the Mediterranean, 1940–1945	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 Ocean Class of the Second World War	0

The Cod Hunters	0
A. C. F. David (1924–2021)	0
Patricia K. Crimmin (1933–2020)	0
The Laird Rams: Britain’s ironclads built for the Confederacy, 1862–1923	0
A Furious Sky: The five-hundred-year history of America’s hurricanes	0
A Jacobean Draught of an 18-gun Ship in the Danish National Archives Drawn by Phineas Pett	0
The Battle of Tsushima	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 Submarines in the Cold War Era	0
Warships After London: The end of the treaty era in the five major fleets, 1930–1936	0
Whales’ Bones of Africa and Asia (with addenda to Whales’ Bones of the Nordic Countries, Central and Eastern Europe)	0
Jimmy Reid: A Clyde-built man	0
Editorial	0
Mutiny on the Spanish Main: HMS ‘Hermione’ and the Royal Navy’s revenge	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
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
Foreign Jack Tars: The British Navy and transnational seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Foreign Jack Tars: The British Navy and transnational seafarers during the R	0
The U-Boat War: A global history, 1939–45 The U-Boat War: A global history, 1939–45 , by L. Paterson, Osprey Publishing, 2022, £25/$35 (hb), 366 pages, illustrations, bi	0
Seán McGrail (1928–2021)	0
Running the Gauntlet: Cargo liners under fire 1939–1945	0
The Rise and Fall of the United Kingdom Shipbreaking Industry from 1945 to 1995	0
A Man for All Oceans: Captain Joshua Slocum and the first solo voyage around the world	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
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
Breaking Seas, Broken Ships: People, shipwrecks and Britain 1854–2007	0
Admiral Byng: Justice thwarted	0
Spoils of War: The fate of enemy fleets after the two World Wars	0
British Nautical Melodramas, 1820–1850	0
‘Rosy’ Wemyss Admiral of the Fleet: The man who created Armistice Day	0
August Lasczky and Sons: Painters of Baltic ships	0
British Responses to the US Steam FrigateFulton the First	0
Britain and the Ocean Road: Shipwrecks and people, 1297–1825	0
The Liberty and the London: Fishing for guns, 1650–1665	0
John Vernon Bartlett (1927–2021)	0
His Royal Highness the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921–2021)	0
The Ship Asunder: A maritime history of Britain in eleven vessels	0
British Naval Intelligence Through the Twentieth Century	0
Black Swan Class Sloops: Detailed in the original builder’s plans	0
Coals and Cables: The remarkable career of MV Dame Caroline Haslett	0
Ann Savours (1927–2022)	0
Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, fear and science at sea	0
William Pratt of Greenwich (1717–95): Ship’s carpenter and painter	0
The Development of Crude Oil Tankers: A historical miscellany	0
Looking for Longitude: A cultural history	0
Tim Severin (1940–2020)	0
James Goldrick (1958–2023)	0
1545: Who sank the ‘Mary Rose’?	0
Catastrophe at Spithead: The sinking of the ‘Royal George’	0
Editorial	0
The Navy and Anglo-Scottish Union, 1603– 1707	0
Editorial	0
The Baqqāra List: A biography of a Bahraini vessel in a letter seeking restitution for its plunder in 1818	0
Frederick Leyland: A re-assessment of his background	0
Chatham Historic Dockyard: World power to resurgence	0
Admiral Sir Kenneth Eaton (1934–2022)	0
The Complements of Four Dutch Ships Taken at the Texel in 1799	0
The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the battle for a national strategy	0
Glasgow Museums: The ship models, a history and complete illustrated catalogue	0
Estudos de História da Náutica e das, Navegações de Alto-Mar	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
The Endurance: Shackleton’s legendary Antarctic expedition The Endurance: Shackleton’s legendary Antarctic expedition , by C. Alexander, Seaforth Publishing, 2021, £16.9	0
Did Steam Make Shipping Safer? Evidence from the British Coastal Bulk Trades	0
‘This Unfortunate Man’: Imperial German naval captain and lifelong pacifist Heinz Kraschutzki	0
Prediction, Prophecy or Speculation? The consequences of geopolitical navel-gazing when predicting future maritime developments	0
War at Sea: A shipwrecked history from antiquity to the twentieth century	0
Graig: One hundred years in shipping	0
The Modern Cruiser: The evolution of the ships that fought the Second World War	0
Some Considerations on the Causes of Mutiny Among Privateer Ships of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, 1815–1821	0
The Route to European Hegemony: India’s intra-Asian trade in the early modern period (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) The Route to European Hegemony: India’s intra-Asian trade in the	0
The Royal Navy’s Difficulties with Implementing Iron Water Tanks, about 1815 to 1840	0
Operation Rising Sun: The sinking of Japan’s secret submarine ‘I-52’	0
La Inteligencia en las Operaciones Navales de 1898: Consecuencias de una estrategia improvisada	0
Forgotten Memoirs: The Second World War as remembered by the Aircrew of RAF Coastal Command	0
Red Star Over the Pacific: China’s rise and the challenge to US maritime strategy	0
Napoleon’s Admirals: Flag officers of the Arc de Triomphe, 1798-1815	0
Harwich Submarines in the Great War: The first submarine campaign of the Royal Navy in 1914	0
Neutral Waters? British Diplomacy of Force in the Canary Islands at the Start of the First World War	0
The Petrol Navy: British, American and other motor boats at war 1914–1920 The Petrol Navy: British, American and other motor boats at war 1914–1920 , by S. R. Dunn, Seaf	0
Editorial	0
A Cargo of Slaves? Demosthenes 34.10	0

Leith-built Ships, vol. 1, They Once Were Shipbuilders	0
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh’s Interest in Maritime History and Ship Preservation	0
Captain John Perry’s A Regulation for Seamen and the Debate over Manning the Royal Navy	0
Whaler versus Steamer: The pursuit of the Ville de Bordeaux, 1841	0
Documents Relating to the Official Dutch Naval Visit to Cherbourg, 8–10 September 1786	0
The Corsairs of Saint-Malo: Network organization of a merchant elite under the Ancien Regime	0
‘Annoyed Every Inch of Their Passage’: Admiral Lord Keith’s counter-invasion campaign, May 1803–August 1805	0
Churchill’s Admiral in Two World Wars: Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover GCB KCVO CMG DSO	0
British Dockyards in the First World War: Transactions of the Naval Dockyards Society Volume 12	0
George Camocke’s 1718 Proposal of a Jacobite–Pirate Alliance	0
The Birth and Growth of Two Scottish Deep-sea Tramp Ship Firms: Hugh Hogarth & Sons and the Lyle Shipping Company Limited, 1832–1967	0
Alexander (Sandy) Stephen (1927–2022)	0
The Letters of Commander John Corbett, 1855–1857	0
Editorial	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
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	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
Aboard a Rudderless Ship: Replacing stern rudders mid-voyage in the English and French navies, 1750–1850	0
John Lenthall: The life of a naval constructor	0
Mastermind of Dunkirk and D-Day: The vision of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay	0
The Figurehead of HMS Seringapatam	0
Electric Arc Welding and the British Shipbuilding Industry, 1914–1960	0
Channel Crossings and Lifesaving: The further (mis)adventures of George Drevar	0
Fred M. Walker (1936–2020)	0
Michael S. Moss (1947–2021)	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
‘One Torpedo, One Ship’: An appraisal of Otto Kretschmer’s U-boat tactics, 1939–1941	0
Capitalism and the Sea: The maritime factor in the making of the modern world; Shipping and Globalization in the Post-War Era: Contexts, companies, connections	0
A Restoration Yacht’s Design Secrets Unveiled: An examination of a ship model with reference to the works of William Sutherland	0
Italian and German Submarine Passage of the Straits of Gibraltar in the Second World War	0
The Influence of the Theories of John Clerk of Eldin on British Fleet Tactics, 1782–1805	0
French Warships in the Age of Steam 1859–1914: Design, construction and fates	0
The Colonial Naval Defence Act 1865 and its Impact in Australia	0
Distant but Close Observers: The officers of the Argentine navy and the First World War	0
The Power and the Glory: Royal Navy Fleet Reviews from earliest times to 2005	0
The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster: How globalized trade led Britain to its worst defeat of the First World War	0
Mr John Frembly RN	0
Where Light in Darkness Lies: The story of the lighthouse	0
Hard Down! Hard Down! The life and times of Captain John Isbester from Shetland	0
Captain Bligh’s Glasses	0
Tilly Kettle’s Portrait of Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Cornish, Captain Richard Kempenfelt and Thomas Parry	0
Echoes from the Deep: Inventorising shipwrecks at the national scale by the application of marine geophysics and the historical text	0
The Boundless Sea: A human history of the oceans	0
Is It Time to Let HMS Victory Go?	0
Years of Endurance: Life aboard the battlecruiser ‘Tiger’ 1914–16	0
R. O. Morris CB (1932–2020)	0
Destroyer ‘Cossack’: Detailed in the original builders’ plans	0
Lord Love the Irish and Damnation to the English: The naval mutinies of 1798	0
Liberty Factory: The untold story of Henry Kaiser’s Oregon shipyards	0
Navalism and Imperial Culture in Spain: The origins and celebration of the Chincha Islands War (1834–1868)	0
Lesley Marion Richmond (1956–2022)	0
Ship Models from the Age of Sail: Building and enhancing commercial kits	0
Under Five Flags: Miguirditch Gumuchdjian, an Armenian shipowner of Constantinople and London 1900–1932	0
Suppressing Piracy in the Early Eighteenth Century: Pirates, merchants and British imperial authority in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans	0
The Longest Campaign: Britain’s maritime struggle in the Atlantic and northwest Europe, 1939–1945	0
William Burrell: A collector’s life	0
The Myth of HMS Minden and ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’: Where did it originate?	0
Chasing the Bounty: The voyages of the ‘Pandora’ and ‘Matavy’ Chasing the Bounty: The voyages of the ‘Pandora’ and ‘Matavy’ , by D. A. Maxton (ed.), McFarland & Comp	0
William James Lithgow (1934–2022)	0
‘Le Grand Routier’ de Pierre Garcie dit Ferrande: Instructions pour naviguer sur les mers du Ponant à la fin du Moyen Âge	0
An Astrolabe from the Wreck ofSantiago, 1585	0
The Stirling Castle, a 70-gun Ship Lost in the Great Storm of 1703: Archaeological investigations 1979–2009 The Maritime Archaeology Monograph, series 4	0
Springboard to Victory: Great Yarmouth and the Royal Navy’s dominance in the North Sea and the Baltic during the French Wars 1793–1815	0
Eight Weeks in the Bristol Channel, 1947	0
William Doxford & Sons Ltd: Shipbuilders and engineers, Sunderland 1837–1988	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
David Malcolm Williams (1940–2021)	0
Royal Yachts Under Sail Royal Yachts Under Sail by B. Lavery, Seaforth, Barnsley, 2022, £50 (hb), 208 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index, ISBN 9781399092913	0
Ideologies of Western Naval Power, c.1500–1815	0
Captain James Cook and the Search for Antarctica	0
Piracy in the Early Modern Era: An anthology of sources	0
‘Where is the Ship Which From the Ceiling Hung?’ Ghost Ships: The ship models missing from Scotland’s churches	0
‘A Ticklish Craft’: Viewing Britain’s empire from inside a birch-bark canoe in the eighteenth century	0
Seaforth World Naval Review 2020	0
Nautical Research and Artificial Intelligence	0
Hitler’s Attack U-boats: The Kriegsmarine’s WWII Submarine Strike Force	0
Graydon Read Henning 1936–2023	0
Navigating by the Southern Cross: A history of the European discovery and exploration of Australia	0
Roger of Lauria (c. 1250–1305), Admiral of Admirals	0
Tribals, Battles and Darings: The genesis of the modern destroyer	0
A Shipbuilder’s Letters to Shipowners: William Pickersgill & Sons 1903–1907	0
Nelson’s Examination for Lieutenant	0
Corrigenda	0
Agamemnon’s Sailing Speeds and the Benefits of Coppering	0
From Hunter to Hunted: The U-Boat war in the Atlantic, 1939–1943	0
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	0
From Old Cannon to Iron Pigs: The introduction of Kentledge ballast in the early modern French navy	0
Editorial	0
Rutters, Courses and Voyages: Navigation at sea in north-west Europe in the fifteenth century	0
The Ronas Voe Incident, 1674	0
How Carriers Fought	0
Warship 2023 Warship 2023 by J. Jordan (ed.), Osprey Publishing, 2023, ￡45 (hb) 224 pages., illustrations, bibliography, isbn 9781472857132	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 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
Editorial	0