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In this free lunchtime talk, curator Fern Aldous will explore the economics and logistics that went into maintaining the Royal Navy’s ‘wooden walls’

Discover the story behind the largest tapestry in Royal Museums Greenwich's collection

The 74, a Third Rate, was the most important new ship-type of the later 18th century. Bellona was one of the most successful Royal Navy designs and became a prototype for its 74s.

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?

Toll for the brave - the story of the Royal George and how it went down in a home port with huge loss of life.

People have travelled by sea using ships and boats for centuries. The Egyptians, Greeks and Phoenicians made some of the earliest vessels

Find out more about our collection of ship figureheads and carving that traces the history of ship ornamentation from the 17th to the 20th centuries

Time-capsules of their present and windows of our past, shipwrecks can offer new perspectives into life on board