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Dr Nina Baker became the first female deck cadet in the British Merchant Navy. Listen to her account of a pioneering career

Gordon 'Willie' Williamson worked aboard Thames barges throughout the 1960s, and witnessed the final years of central London as a busy cargo hub

Former Caird Fellow Dr. Jack Avery explores the seventeenth-century maritime journals held at the Caird Library and Archive, and in particular the one written by the amateur poet and astrologer Jeremy Roch

Explore printed ephemera at the Caird Library and Archive, a collection that brings to life the golden age of ocean travel.

Seafarers Michael Rudder and Dominic Brown spent years working in the Merchant Navy. A chance encounter and a missed departure led to a life at sea together

How a reading of a Victorian novel led to research into contemporary maritime themes and an exploration of our collections.

Learn about Dr Nina Baker’s struggle to become one of the first women navigation officers in the British Merchant Navy

From buried treasure to walking the plank, how much of what we think we know about pirates is really true?

What do we really know about the notorious pirate duo, and how have later accounts shaped our perception of female pirates?