Society for Nautical Research
The Society for Nautical Research was founded in 1910 by Charles Napier Robinson to promote the academic field of maritime history in the United Kingdom.
The aims of the society [1] were to:
- support and encourage research in maritime history and underwater archaeology.
- publish the pre-eminent academic journal for maritime history, The Mariner's Mirror.
- sponsor events and conferences
- purchase art and artifacts for the National Maritime Museum, which the Society helped to found.
- fund special projects, such as the preservation of HMS Victory, one of the original aims of the society at its foundation.
The society celebrated its centenary in 2010 [2]
Patron and President
- HRH Prince Philip
Chairman
- Admiral Sir Kenneth Eaton
Honorary Editor, Mariner's Mirror
- Dr. Martin Bellamy
Fellows of the Society for Nautical Research (FSNR)
In 2011, the Chairman of the Society, Admiral Sir Kenneth Eaton suggested in his "The Way Forward" report that the Society create a system of fellowships, similar to that of other Learned societies, as a means of recognition, using the Post-nominal letters "FSNR". Eaton initially asked a small group to carry forward the idea and the result was a report to which the Society's Council agreed and the idea was put forward to the Annual General Meeting. It was agreed that election as a Fellow of the Society would be in recognition of the outstanding role that an individual had played in furthering the objectives of the Society as set forth in its constitution. This might be for long service as an officer or member of the Council, as an officer of the Society's committees, as an outstanding contributor to its publications, or as a member whose achievements in the field of maritime studies merit recognition.[3]
List of the Original Fellows of the Society for Nautical Research
The first class of Fellows of the Society was created in 2015 and consisted of the following 32 individuals:[4]
- Alan Aberg
- Richard Bateman
- Martin Bellamy
- John Bingeman
- Jonathan Coad
- Kenneth Eaton
- Jock Gardner
- Eric Grove
- Richard Harding
- John Hattendorf
- Richard Hill
- Peter Hore
- Brian Lavery
- Derek Law
- Margarette Lincoln
- Alan McGowan
- Campbell McMurray
- Pieter van der Merwe
- Roger Morriss
- Countess Mountbatten
- Hugh Murphy
- Peter Nash
- Derek Oddy
- Sarah R. Palmer
- Lawrence Phillips
- Susan Rose
- Frank Scott
- Ann Shirley
- Ray Sutcliffe
- Peter Winterbottom
- Jenny Wraight
Overseas Corresponding Members
The Society invited a small group of leading maritime historians in other countries, who were also members of the Society, to act as liaison in their own countries and to correspond with news of activities and events of interest to the membership to be published in the Society's newsletter. The current Overseas Corresponding Members are:[5]
- Australia: Rear Admiral James Goldrick, Royal Australian Navy
- Belgium: Ron Brand
- Canada: William Glover, PhD
- Denmark: Professor Poul Holm
- Finland: Tapio Bergholm, PhD
- France: Rear Admiral Jean-Yves Nerzic, French Navy
- Ireland: Seán T. Rickard, MA
- The Netherlands:
- Norway: Professor Stig Tenold
- Spain: Laureano Carbonell Relat, PhD
- The United States: Professor John B. Hattendorf, DPhil, DLitt
Other Notable Members
- Ernest Dade, maritime artist and model maker
Publications
Lectures
Since 2010, the Society has been a co-sponsor of the annual Alan Villiers Memorial Lecture at Oxford.
Notes
- ↑ Naish, G. P. B. (George Prideaux Brabant) (1950), Forging ahead : an account of the work and aims of the Society for Nautical Research, Society for Nautical Research, retrieved 25 April 2016
- ↑ Murphy, Hugh; Oddy, Derek J; Society for Nautical Research (London, England) (2010), The mirror of the seas : a centenary history of the Society for Nautical Research, Society for Nautical Research, ISBN 978-0-902387-01-0
- ↑ Society of Nautical Research. Annual General Meeting, 2016. "Honorary Secretary's Annual Report for the Year 2015, paragraph 13.
- ↑ "Occasional Paper," distributed at the Annual General Meeting, 18 June 2016, Mariners Mirror, vol. 10. no. 4 (November 2016), p. 509.
- ↑ Mariners Mirror, vol. 102, no 4 (November 2016), list of Officers