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This guide gives a brief outline of flags in the National Maritime Museum, followed by a list of historic foreign flags, which form a splendid part of the collection

How to access source material on famous explorers, navigators and hydrographers including polar explorers

This guide is a brief introduction to the museum's collection of manuscript and printed hydrography (charts), cartography (maps), written sailing directions, originally known as 'portolans', and pilot books

This guide outlines basic sources for studying the life and achievements of James Cook. It details resources available at the National Maritime Museum and elsewhere

This guide outlines the museum's collection of printed books, manuscripts and artefacts relating to music and the sea

This guide lists some of the extensive collection of publications held by the Museum relating to the contemporary marine environment

This guide outlines useful sources for research on women and the sea, chiefly at the National Maritime Museum but also The National Archives

This guide lists some of the books, manuscripts and images held by the Museum relating to pirates and privateers

This guide provides information about Lloyd's Register of Shipping as an aid to research. The National Maritime Museum's Library has copies dating from 1764 to date

This guide gives a brief outline of the history of Lloyd's List, a newspaper reporting shipping movements and casualties, maritime news and other commercial information