The Mariner's Mirror Podcast

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• The Lost Ships of Charles II's Navy

  October 5, 2026 · 40 min

  In 1677 Charles II embarked on one of the most ambitious shipbuilding programmes England had ever attempted: thirty great new warships, built to challenge the naval power of France and the Dutch Republic. Two years later, a young…

• The Ports That Made Britain: Ramsgate

  September 28, 2026 · 43 min

  This is episode 5 of our Heritage Harbours short series, celebrating the Heritage Harbour initiative which seeks to protect and revive historic ports, docks, canals and waterfronts that still retain a genuine working maritime…

• The Ports That Made Britain: Ipswich

  September 21, 2026 · 47 min

  This is episode 4 of our Heritage Harbours short series, celebrating the Heritage Harbour initiative which seeks to protect and revive historic ports, docks, canals and waterfronts that still retain a genuine working maritime…

• The Ports That Made Britain: Bideford and Appledore

  September 14, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

  This is episode 3 of our Heritage Harbours short series, celebrating the Heritage Harbour initiative which seeks to protect and revive historic ports, docks, canals and waterfronts that still retain a genuine working maritime…

• The Ports That Made Britain: Exeter

  September 7, 2026 · 53 min

  This is episode 2 of our Heritage Harbours short series, celebrating the Heritage Harbour initiative which seeks to protect and revive historic ports, docks, canals and waterfronts that still retain a genuine working maritime…

• Heritage Harbours: The Ports That Made Britain

  August 31, 2026 · 32 min

  For thousands of years, Britain's story has been written around its coastline. Long before there were motorways or railways, the sea connected our towns and cities, bringing trade, people, ideas, conflict and prosperity. Every harbour…

• Darwin's Surgeon: Benjamin Bynoe

  August 18, 2026 · 36 min

  When Charles Darwin set out on HMS Beagle on a voyage that would change science forever and our understanding of the natural world, at his side was the Royal Naval surgeon Benjamin Bynoe. This episode tells the story of Bynoe's fascinating…

• The Naval Fiction Interviews: Antoine Vanner and Nicholas Dawlish

  August 4, 2026 · 54 min

  In this episode of our naval fiction series, we step beyond the age of Nelson and into the turbulent world of the late nineteenth century—a period when sail gave way to steam, wooden warships became ironclads, and naval technology advanced…