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Discover the role and history of the commercial shipping fleet – and its connections with Royal Museums Greenwich

What’s it like to work in Antarctica? Ice pilot Captain Philippa Bowden on navigating the immense frozen wilderness – and the challenges facing the region

Safeguarding Tresco’s guardians: the story of the Valhalla collection

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.