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It's one of the most infamous ships of all time, but what do we actually know about the RMS Titanic?

No passenger ship has ever captured the public imagination like the Titanic. Amazing objects in the National Maritime Museum's collection reveal its infamous story

See the terrifying height of Cutty Sark's masts - did you know there are over 11 miles of rope on the ship?

Take part in activities themed around the decades Cutty Sark spent as Ferreira after the ship was sold to a Portuguese company in 1895

What do key objects like the bust of Olaudah Equiano and Kehinde Wiley's Ship of Fools mean to young people?

What did it mean to be 'tarred and feathered' and why were punishments so harsh at sea?

Royal Museums Greenwich prides itself on creating innovative and intriguing books about the sea, ships, time and the stars

For February's item of the month I have chosen JOD/133 a logbook written by T.F. Miller, the gunner on the whaling ship 'Erik' which records a voyage undertaken in 1876 from Dundee to the Davis Strait and Baffin Bay between Canada and Greenland.