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Contrary to popular belief, the Titanic disaster of 1912 was not Britain's greatest loss of life at sea. The Lancastria disaster of 1940 is the most catastrophic loss recorded.

The rare book collection at the Caird Library holds numerous delights. One of our readers requested this book and it particularly caught my eye as it is written by an officer who began service in the Royal Navy as a young lad in the 1800s.

Prints held in the National Maritime Museum's collection might not be all they seem.

The spine labels of The King's Ships, by H. S. Lecky show that ships from ABOUKIR to JUPITER are included in these volumes, the title page states that this is a six-volume work, and the introduction explains that they contain a 'history of all those ships which are in the Naval service of the Empire'. So where are the last three volumes?

What does a recent auction of a piece of a flag flown on HMS Victory have in common with this recently catalogued Dobbie collection?

The Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition received over 3800 entries from around 80 countries in 2017. Astronomer and judge Marek Kukula draws out the scientific and personal stories from five of his favourites.

Royals, courtiers and complex relationships - what can we learn from exploring the lives of those who loved at the Queen's House?

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.

James Creassy's journal (Item ID: JOD/304) is over 300 pages long and written in perfectly legible handwriting - a rare find for material from 1777! He does not say why he is travelling to Bengal, but records in detail the entertaining, dramatic and sometimes rather distressing events that take place during the journey.