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Nautical site directory

Every subject on nautical.im gets its own site. Vasa is open now. Here is what is planned next.

Open now

This hub, nautical.im, and the nautical site below. More will be listed here, with a link, on the day each one goes live.

• Vasa, 1628vasa.nautical.im

  The Swedish warship that sank 1,300 metres into her maiden voyage in 1628 and came back up in 1961: how she was built, why she sank, the salvage, the conservation and the museum today, with the myths checked and a public fact-check log.

  Open now

Coming soon

• The Peggy of Castletownpeggy.nautical.im

  Planned: the Isle of Man boat found in a walled-up cellar in 1935, called the world’s oldest surviving schooner, and the puzzle of which of three Quayle boats she is.

  Planned
• The Mary Rosemary-rose.nautical.im

  Planned: Henry VIII’s warship, lost in the Battle of the Solent in 1545 and raised in 1982, and how her conservation compares with Vasa’s.

  Planned
• Viking shipsviking-ships.nautical.im

  Planned: the five Skuldelev ships sunk as a barrier in Roskilde Fjord, from an ocean-going trader to a great longship.

  Planned
• Longitudelongitude.nautical.im

  Planned: how sailors found their position at sea, the 1714 Longitude Act and John Harrison’s sea clocks.

  Planned
• SS Great Britainss-great-britain.nautical.im

  Planned: the iron, propeller-driven liner of 1843, in her day the world’s largest passenger ship.

  Planned
• Lifeboatslifeboats.nautical.im

  Planned: the history of lifeboats and the RNLI, founded in 1824 on Sir William Hillary’s idea.

  Planned

How we choose them

We pick ships and stories with good public sources: museums, heritage registers and the organisations that look after them. The first, Vasa, has a museum that publishes its own research. The Peggy of Castletown is on the list because she is an Isle of Man boat, like REALLYBYTE.

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