To arrange to speak with a member of the team, contact the Press Office: press@rmg.co.uk.

Meet the team

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Curator Andrew Choong stands in the archives at Royal Museums Greenwich

Andrew Choong Han Lin

Curator, Historic Photographs, Ship Plans & Technical Records

Areas of expertise: First World War and Second World War, British, Japanese and US naval history, and the evolution of naval technology and warfare between 1860 and 1945

Other topics of interest: Victorian/Edwardian science fiction, naval wargaming, historical reenactment (Napoleonic)

Media work: Documentaries includingShipwreck Secrets: The Battle of Jutland, Combat Ships, Secrets of the Lost Liners, Sunken Warships: Secrets from the Deep,History Hit: Hunt the Bismarck, Pirates

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Louise Macfarlane

Senior Curator, Maritime Technologies

Areas of expertise:Cutty Sark, merchant marine, life at sea in the nineteenth century, the tea trade in the nineteenth century, maritime photography

Other topics of interest: Literature, football and sea swimming

Media work:  Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch, BBC Radio, BBC London News, Roux Down the River, How the Victorians Built Britain, Mariner’s Mirror podcast, national print

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Lucy Dale

Curator of Maritime and Digital Collections

Areas of expertise: Oral history, scurvy, Titanic, Merchant Navy (first half of the 20th century) digital preservation, edged weapons

Other topics of interest: History of medicine, literature, film

Media work: If it Ain’t Baroque podcast

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Headshot of curator Alex Grover. He has a light brown beard and hair, and is standing with a roll of paper under one arm

Alex Grover

Assistant Curator of Historic Photographs and Ship Plans

Areas of Expertise: Naval and merchant ship design, ship plans, SS Great Eastern, British polar photography, naval mutinies, ship badge design, World Wars, naval battles

Other topics of interest: Arctic Polar exploration, warships, battlecruisers, shipwrecks, maritime disasters, John Dee

Media work: Talks and conferences