The Collection

The Traders gallery explores Britain’s maritime trade with Asia, focusing on the role played by the East India Company - from the maritime world of Asia to the company in crisis.

Scale: circa 1:20. Full hull and fully-rigged model of a type of Northern Chinese junk known as an Antung Trader. The model has been built from drawings and measurements made by the donor, Lt (later Lt-Cdr) David Watkin Waters RN, in Wei Hai Wei, China, in 1938. The hull is…

There have been a number of major changes at the National Maritime Museum in the last few months - some physical, with new buildings and infrastructure as part of the Sammy Ofer Wing and new galleries, and some virtual, with...

It is with great sadness that we announce the end of the Nautical Magazine. The publication was incorporated into the monthly journal Sea Breezes at the end of last year. The Caird Library was formally informed by a letter from...