HRH The Duke of Edinburgh’s Interest in Maritime History and Ship Preservation

This study was an attempt to understand how the available alternative source materials, such as oral testimonies can serve as valuable assets to unveiling certain aspects of maritime history in India. A number of themes in maritime history in India failed to get the attention of the generation of historians, because of the paucity of written documents. Unlike in Europe, the penning down of shipping activities was not a concern for the authorities at the port in India. The pamphlets and newsletters declared the scheduled departure of the ship in Europe but, in India, this was done verbally. Therefore, maritime history in India remained marginalised. Hence, in this article, I make an endeavour to perceive how the oral testimonies can help shed some new light on certain aspects of maritime history in India, such as life on the ship, maritime practices, and perceptions among the littoral people in coastal societies. This article also outlines an approach on how the broader question on the transformation of scattered maritime practices among coastal societies can be adapted and transferred into an organised institution of law by the nineteenth century, and how these can be pursued in future. I also suggest in this article that the role of Europeans, especially the British, in the process of transformation, can be investigated further through oral testimonies in corroboration with the colonial archival records.

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Achievements and Core Agendas of the Research on the Maritime History and Culture in Jeonbuk West Sea Area

The Journal of Korean Island ◽

10.26840/jki.29.4.1 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Minyoung Kim

Keyword(s):

Maritime History ◽

Sea Area

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Reenacting Migration, Past and Present

Transfers ◽

10.3167/trans.2017.070311 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 127-130

Author(s):

Mariana C. Françozo

Keyword(s):

Maritime History ◽

Christopher Columbus ◽

Exhibition Space ◽

European Capital Of Culture ◽

Air Space ◽

History Of ◽

The City

Located at the old harbor of the city of Genoa, the modern Galata Museo del Mare was inaugurated as part of the commemoration of Genoa as the 2004 European Capital of Culture. Only twelve years later, the museum proudly welcomes 200,000 visitors annually into its twenty-eight galleries, organized in an impressive exhibition space of 10,000 square meters, showcasing 4,300 objects. While the aim of the museum is to tell the maritime history of Genoa—ranging from Christopher Columbus to an open-air space showcasing the story of the Genoese shipyard—it is the exhibition on migration to and from Italy that will truly impress the visitor.

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