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🌟 #MaritimeMonday Announcement 🌟

HMS Victory, Nelson’s flagship and one of the main attractions at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, will be featured as part of the upcoming Naval Dockyards Society 26th Annual Conference. Image
Hosted at the National Museum of the Royal Navy between 9th – 11th June, this 3-day hybrid international conference promises to be an outstanding event. 🛳️
#maritimemonday #HMSVictory #Nelson #maritime #maritimehistory #maritimearchaeology #NationalMuseumoftheRoyalNavy #RoyalNavy Image
Keynote speeches will include Dr Antony Firth’s ‘Placing Warships: Reconnecting vessels and dockyards’ and Clare Hunt’s presentation, ‘HMS Trincomalee: Design, Construction and Modification, 1812 – 1900’.
#maritimemonday #HMSVictory #Nelson #maritime #maritimehistory Image
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#Thread on the Odia Maritime Activities since ancient times.

#History #NavalHistory #Odisha #Hindutva
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Kalingan Prince Vijaya was the first Sinhalese king of Sri Lanka. He ruled Sri Lanka in the 6th-century BCE.

Kalingans further established a kingdom in the far-off Maldives Islands before 3rd century BCE !

This is concrete testimony of the early sea-faring people of Odisha.
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Ptolemy's work of ~150 CE - "Geography" - mentions the Kalinga trade with *Far-East*.

*Kalinga-Roman* maritime trade flourished as well, judging from the findings of Shishupalgarh excavations.

#InternationalTrade
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#MaritimeFocus by @TheWeek in #AnniversaryIssue
Adm Karambir Singh, CNS: "Indian Navy ready to meet any challenge in #IOR ".
He also talks about modernisation plans, enhanced maritime surveillance to counter threats. Read at
theweek.in/theweek/cover/…
@SandeepUnnithan @acorn Image
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NAM Rodger says in @LRB that there are “scarcely more than a score” of memoirs by ordinary sailors, in a review of Stephen Taylor’s “Sons of the Waves”, covering 1740-1840. Hmm, I thought. Book cover of Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the He
He’s talking about autobiography published in book form ... but in 19C most historical writing, inc memoir, was not to be found in books, but in magazines and newspapers, as @lesliehowsam has established.
I haven’t read the book, nor those of Prof Rodger & don’t know anything about #maritimehistory or #navalhistory. But 30 mins searching in @BNArchive, which contains less than 10% of British/Irish newspapers, found a dozen memoirs, not in Stephen Taylor's book.
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Heavy traffic! This map shows routes of #Dutch, #English and #Swedish East India companies, based on the amazing #CLIWOC dataset (thanks @stvno!). The data is based on naval logbook records; here I only show data pre-1800. #twttterstorians #AsianTwitter #maritimehistory #VOC
You can download the data here: stvno.github.io/page/cliwoc/ or here: easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id…
I'll soon tweet some more maps using this dataset, they allow (among others) linkage with the VOC crews dataset.
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