To illustrate the wide range of subjects published in the Bulletin, those from recent years are listed below:-  

Volume 55, No. 3, December, 2011

Captain Pape and the Maitland                                    Gordon Bodey

Engine Room Noise                                                        James Pottinger

Remember those days...                                                              Bill Ogle

S.S. Etrib                                                                                     John Cook

Henry Bell's Comet    Part 2                                            Gordon Bodey

The Marine Society                                                                   The Editor

Mr Roper's Diary                                                           W. G. Williamson

Maryport Maritime Museum                                                 The Editor

The Kitchen Rudder                                                       Charles Dawson

The Stewart Bale Archive                                                  Anne Gleave

Liverpool Sailors' Home Gates                                               The Editor

Volume 55, No 2, September, 2011

A seaman and his Food                                          Captain W A Sparks

Anchor Memorial

Remember those days...                                                              Bill Ogle

William Wilson of the Emily St Pierre              Willie Williamson

Book Review

Bell's Comet   Part 1                                                          Gordon Bodey

Arson Suspected in Ferry Fires                                                 Bill Ogle

L.N.R.S. Programme for 2011 - 2012

Call The Watch                                                               James Pottinger

Was That Really Fifty Years Ago                                       John Stokoe

Moss Steamship Company                                       Regulations Part 3

Life on the Old Bangers                                           Captain R M Burns

Great Hurricane of 1889                                                            Bill Ogle

Ship Manager                                                                                    R C Lee

Volume 55. No. 1, June, 2011

Stranded in the Bitter Lakes                                                   R W Short

Remember those days...                                                              Bill Ogle

Book Review

Society Visit                                                                                    Bill Ogle

Highlights from the Archives                                           Dawn Littler

The Queen Mary-a guided tour                                     Glyn L Evans

The Monday Facility                                                              John Moore

A Voyage Too Many?                                                        Alex Hampton

Preserving a  Great Maritime Epoch                  Colonel Vere Cotton

The Swedish Connection                                                             Bill Ogle

Moss Steamship Company                                       Regulations Part 2

A Voyage in the Angerona                                  Michael Brocklebank

Experiments with Carrier Pigeons                             MMSA Reporter

Volume 54, No. 4, March, 2011

Memories of Rats Noxas                                                   William Bone

An Ignominious End                                        Captain A. C. Sprigings

Remember Those Days....                                                           Bill Ogle

Proposed Super Liners                                                        Gordon Bodey

Society Visit                                                                                   Bill Ogle

Lelia                                                                                     Chris. Michael

Lookout Versus Lights                                The Journal of Navigation

Book Review

The Idea of a Maritime Museum            Dr. C. Northcote Parkinson

Moss Steamship Company                                       Regulations Part 1

Nahlin                                                                                             Bill Ogle

Twenty Years On                                                                W. K. Wishart

A Race to the Wire                                                                             Anon.

Volume 54, No. 3, December, 2010

Flags of Convenience.                                                      Tommy Molloy

Sharp and Waid, Shipowners.                                               John Kelly

The Buoyage Tender Relume.                       Captain Nigel Stewart

Tenure of Office of Chairman and Vice Chairman       John Stokoe

Trade between the Mersey, Dee and Clwyd Estuaries in 1891.

                                                                                                       Ken Davies

The Wartime Tragedy of the Cap Arcona.            Charles Dawson

Art at Karlskrona Museum.                                         Anders Akesson

The SS Ixion and a Fire at Sea.

                                                             Willie Williamson and Ian Morris

The South American Meat Trade.                        Captain H.F. Pettit

The Mona's Queen of 1934                                         Adrian Sweeney

Mersey Maritime News.                                                           The Editor

Volume 54, No. 2, September, 2010

Mersey Maritime News                                                            The Editor

A Trade in Tobacco                                                           Peter T Walker

The Figurehead Jenny Lind                                                John Stokoe

Brocklebanks                                                                   W. Stewart Rees

The Transatlantic Post Office                                        Graham Booth

U Boat Visit                                                                                     Bill Ogle

Fawsett, Preston & Company                                 Malcolm McRonald

The Radio Room at Perch Rock                                 W.G. Williamson

Calcutta                                                                        James A Pottinger

Crystal Symphony                                                                   The Editor

Volume 54, No. 1, June, 2010

Mersey Maritime News                                                            The Editor

Hoops and Staves                                                                  J. E. Cowden

Shipbuilding on the Dee                                                    Tony Barratt

The Maritime Art of Kenneth D. Shoesmith            Glynn L. Evans

T.S.M.V. Port Pirie                                                         James Pottinger

Quo Vadis Liverpool?                                                 Arthur C. Wardle

American Coastal Rescue Craft - a book review            Eric S. Long

Early Steamship Types                                             Nigel W. Kennedy

Fighting Civilians - a book review                                     John Stokoe

The League of Welldoers                                                       Lesley Black

L.N.R.S. Annual Award

The Development of Fuel Saving Techniques                  Paul Moore

Hermes of Liverpool                                                              David White

The Finest in the Kingdom - Liverpool Carters         Sharon Brown

Volume 53, No. 4, March, 2010

Mersey Maritime News                                                            The Editor

 The Ellan Vannin Remembered                                    Dick Clague

Britannic, Liverpoo's Jewel in the Crown  

                                                                                    Norman S. Swindells

 Lifeboats                                                                                  Audrey Farr

 Train Ferries                                                                         Geoff Holmes

 The Loss of the Steamer Orion                                      Gordon Bodey

 The King Orry of 1913 (Part Two)                                    The Editor

 Iron Steamers of the River Shannon                        Charles Dawson

 Traveller                                                       From Lloyds List July 1897

Volume 53, No.3, December, 2009

 Editorial

 Mersey Maritime News                                                           The Editor

 The Voyages of John Williams 1842-69                  Rosalind Person

The King Orry of 1913  (Part One)                                     The Editor

Jack Binns - The first wireless hero.     

                                                       David Barlow and W. G. Williamson

The state of the Mersey 1870 - 20

Frigate Sachsen                                                                        The Editor

Frigate Lubeck                                                                          The Editor

Sea Post Offices           

Raising the S.S. Lady Lansdowne                            James Scannell

Twenty Seven Days in an Open Boat          Captain James Richard

1990 Atlantic Rate Wars and Emigration                Harry Hignett

“Fossets"                                                                             Charles Dawson

Volume 53, No. 2, September, 2009

The Merchant Navy Chartered by the Nation     Capt.S.W.Roskill The Scarweather Lightship and Magnetic Mines

The loss of the Athenia on 3rd September, 1939

The Isle of Man Steam Packet Co. and the Second World War

The Tynwald at Dunkirk                                               Geoffrey Kinley The war service of the Queen Elizabeth

Port at War - the Liverpool Pilotage Service

Fog at the Bar                                                           Nicholas Monsarrat

Vol 53, No 1, June, 2009

The Empress of Australia of 1920

Trooping on the Empress of Australia            Captain John C Moffat

Captain Charles Carries Molasses                                  John Fletcher

ss Marklyn – A Brief History and Her Wartime Salvage                                                                                                                   Gordon Bodey

L.N.R.S. Award – Synopsis of winning submission

                                                      Mark Grimshaw

The British & American Steam Navigation Company

                                                      Frank C Bowen

The Name Game                                                                              J B Hill

Tom – The Kroo Boy                                                         Harry Hignett

Vol 52, No 4, March, 2009

The Elder Dempster Liner ‘Aba’ of 1920                    John Shepherd

Winter Solstice

Ships, Barges and the Environment                        Allan McCleland

An Atlantic Steerage Passage in 1907            Lt Col Frank Bustard

Book Review – All Hands and the Cook                      John Shepherd

Thos. & Jas Harrison – Down Under                          Graeme Cubbin

Shipbuilding Returns for 1949

                                    Shipbuilding & Shipping Record

Mersey Dock Developments in 1903                           Harry Hignett

Alfred Holt’s Blue Funnel Priam Class                  James A Pottinger

The Collins Liner Adriatic of 1856                               Frank C Bowen

Poole to Barbados – The Hard Way                                           Bill Rose

Parametric Rolling in Head Seas                               Charles Dawson

 

Vol 52, No 3, December, 2008

Christmas Encounter                                                          J H Schofield

The Salvage of the Mary P. Cooper                        Percy Dunbavand

Monster Waves                                                               Charles Dawson

The Belfast Steamship Company –

Ulster Monarch of 1929                                           Malcolm McRonald

Elder Dempster’s Accra of 1947                                   Fred Thompson

Herschel and Charity Corrections                                     Roy Fenton

Sam Cunard Before Fame                                                 Gordon Bodey

Mersey Ferry Miscellany                                                John Shepherd

 

Vol 52, No 2, September, 2008

The Theft of the Ferret                                                      John Kennedy

H.M.S. Conway – the End of an Era

Mersey Ferries – the Irish Connection

Malcolm McRonald

The Woodside and Bermuda

Pilgrims                                                                                     Ian Jackson

The Cunard Liner Ascania of 1925                             John Shepherd

H.M. Armed Merchant Cruiser Ascania                         Guy Stafford

Reflections from the New Chairman                                       Bill Ogle

Farewell to the Mersey                                                      John Fletcher

Canon Bob Evans M.B.E.                                                 John Shepherd

T.S.M.V. Port Pirie                                                     James A Pottinger

Vol 52, No 1, June, 2008

Proposed Circular Ferry for the Mersey                       Gordon Bodey

The Yavari on Lake Titicaca                                            G.Dangerfield

The Wreck of the Mexico                                Commander G.I. Mayes

From Finisterre to FitzRoy                                           Charles Dawson

PSNC Liner Reina del Pacifico of 1931                         John Shepherd

Three Weeks to Colombo in 1945                                     Peter Clowes

The Kylsant Crash                                                               Tony Barratt

Life Aboard Two Latter-Day Chester Coasters

Part 2: the Normanby Hall                                                     Ken Davies

The Empire Orwell / Gunung Djati                                  Martin Young

Book Review - 'Great Mersey Liners'

Vol 51, No 3, March, 2008

Attention All Shipping                                                   John Shepherd

The Overland Route                                                        John Shepherd

Cruising the Med for 15 Guineas                                          A H Joyce

Voyage to the West Coast on the Deido                              J E Cowden

Life Aboard Two Latter Day Chester River Coasters,

Part 1 – the Hawarden Bridge                                               Ken Davies

A Stern Warning

Icelandic Interlude                                                                 Ron Hunter

Liverpool Pilots’ Working Routines 1897                  Harry Hignett

The L.N.R.S. Award 2007

 

 

 

 

 

Special Edition marking the 70th Anniversary of Liverpool Nautical Research Society, December, 2007

Portrait of a Liverpool Shipowner- A review of the life

of Frederick James Harrison                                                     G Cubbin

A Great Union- The joint winner of the 2004

LNRS Award                                                                              R Williams

Stuart & Douglas- A story of a Liverpool Company

in the palm oil trade                                                                  DKC Eccles

The Port of Ulverston- A study of the port and

particularly its shipbuilding                                                      C Dawson

100 Years of Marine Insurance in Liverpool- An outline of Liverpool's role in marine insurance                                     AJ Barratt

The Wireless Colleges of Liverpool- The story of Liverpool's wireless colleges since the earliest days                    WG Williamson

Characters I have Sailed with- Reminiscences of some

of the characters who were encountered in a

career at sea                                                                              J Pottinger Massey’s Patent Electric Log- The progress towards developing a reliable method of recording distance travelled at sea

                                                                                                           G Bodey The Introduction of Steam Engine Powered Ships-

The story of early marine propulsion                                 N Swindells Western Prince- The loss of the SS Western Prince and the consequences thereof                                                            T & S Felton

Notes on Contributors

The Liverpool Nautical Research Society Society Projects

The Liverpool Nautical Research Society - Award Scheme

The Society at work

 

Vol 51, No 2, September, 2007

The Empress of Britain of 1956                                   John Shepherd

The Day the Manchester Ship Canal Ran Dry      Graeme Cubbin The Wallasey Ferries of 1907

Book Review ‘Lighthouses of Liverpool Bay’

Small Ships – Deep Water, 1950 – 1960              Alan McClelland

The Greek Line and Liverpool                              Malcolm McRonald

The Bond of the Sea                                                               Leslie Leigh

Memories of the Jervis Bay (Part 2)                           Adrian Thorpe

Introduction of Heavy Oil in Diesels                   James A Pottinger

The Last Voyage of the Queen Mary                          John Shepherd

Vol 51, No 1, June, 2007

Marconi’s ‘Spans’                                                                David White

Morse in the Air                                                     William Williamson

The Booth Liner Hildebrand of 1911                           John Shepherd

The Capture of the Elsinore                                            P. Dunbavand

Obitury – Captain John Temple

Memories of the Edmund Gardner                           Alun Pari Huws

The Lusitania takes the Blue Riband

Master of the Perseus                                                        John Fletcher

Memories of the Jervis Bay                                            Adrian Thorpe

Letter to the Master of the QE2                            Sir Ivan Thompson

The St Tudno joins the United States Navy                    Roy Fenton

Vol 50, No 4, March, 2007

Big Ships in the Mersey                                                      Peter Clowes

The Cunard Liner Sylvania of 1957                           John Shepherd

The Dragon and the Liver Bird:

Chinese Seamen in World War II                                  Charles Foley

The Geordie Tramp                                                    William C Reeves

Memories of the Tuscania

Two Dinghies for the Calchas                                         John Fletcher

The Windsor Castle Remembered                                      Peter Elson

Captain R Minto and Charles Lightoller                          J E Cowden

Liverpool and the Atlantic Passenger Trade                    H Hignett

Vol 50, No 3, December, 2006

Christmas on a Cape Horner                     Captain Fred Klebingat

The Delivery Voyage of the Alabama         Captain M. J. Butcher

The Foundering of mv Derbyshire                          Charles Dawson

Saving the ‘Planet’                                                                Peter Elson

Blue Funnel : The Fleet, 1865 – 1914                     Prof. F E. Hyde

The Container Revolution                                   James A Pottinger

A Drink Problem on the Royal Iris                            John Shepherd

From Cunard Liner to Seaplane Carrier :

The Campania of 1892

Vol 50, No 2, September, 2006

The Tactician and Hurricane ‘Hattie’Capt.         Graeme Cubbin

The Ortega and the Difficulties she Surmounted

                                                                                               T E Edwardes

A Mild Case of Tankeritis                                   Captain Brian Scott

South Africa, Suez and Sphinxes                                   Ron Hunter

Donald McKay(1810-1880) Shipbuilder                         F C Bowen

Memorable Days on the Java – New York Run       James Barron

The L.N.R.S. Award – Winning Entry 2005      Charles Jocelyn

More About the Suez Canal/ The Empire Windrush Fire

The Case for Barging                                                 Alan McClelland

The Royal Voyage on the Empress of Scotland

Vol 50, No 1, June, 2006

The Andrea Doria/ Stockholm Collision                   John Shepherd

White Star Relics: the Nomadic and the Oceanic’s Bell

George’s Landing Stage, Liverpool                                   T B Maund

The Suez Crisis of 1956

The Empire Windrush – an Icon of England            John Shepherd

The Pioneer Inman Liner City of Glasgow             Frank C Bowen

The Manxman – Past, Present and Future                         Bill Ogle

McTay Marine                                                           Antony J Barratt

The National Line : A Liverpool Promoted Enterprise of 1863

Readers Letters / Book Reviews

Vol 49, No 4, March, 2006

The Loss of the Primrose Hill                                            David Eccles

Captain Jack Goes Shopping                                        John Fletcher

The Bibby Liner Cheshire of 1927

Saga of a Mersey Pilot Cutter                              Capt. J P Thomson

Marconi Marine, 1900 – 1950

Memory Calls                                                                     Fred G Shaw

Wireless Memories of the Mauritania                            Bill Haynes

Robert Napier – A Clyde Shipbuilder, 1815 – 1900

Don’t Miss the Tide, Mister                                       Capt Brian Scott

The Atlantic Drift Card Experiment                     Arthur Jennion

Memories of MacBraynes from the 1960’s           Gordon Hossack

My First and Last Brocklebank Ships                James A Pottinger

The Unlucky Sisters Dakota and Montana         Dennis Branigan

Vol 49, No 3, December, 2005

Christmas Memories                                                      John D Rogers

Ice Cold in Leningrad                  Martin Mitchell/ Capt. F. Weller

The Chicken Rock Lighthouse                     Christopher Nicholson

Obitury – Olive Williamson

The Problem of the Mersey Bar                                 John Shepherd

A Year with the Carinthia (Part at Lakes  2)       John Shepherd

Self Unloading Vessels of the Great Lakes                   H M Hignett

Clarke’s Automatic Bunkering Barges                        David Eccles

Book Reviews/ Readers’ Letters

A Voyage to South America                             Captain Brian Scott

Christmas Dinner on the Floristan, 1956 style

                                                                                             Tony Sedman

Vol 49, No 2, September, 2005

The L.N.R.S. Programme of Meetings, 2005  -  2006

Elder Dempster and the St Lawrence River Trade

                                                                                                   J E Cowden

The L.N.R.S. Award 2004: Precis of Joint Winning Entry:‘The

Role of the Merchant Navy and Liverpool in the Battle of the

Atlantic, circa 1939–1945                                          Lynn Jackson

A Year with the Carinthia (Part 1) – Winter North Atlantic                                                                                              John Shepherd

The Early History of Water-Jet Propulsion         Charles Dawson

The White Star Liner Celtic 1901

Harrison Lines Inkosi of 1937

Readers’ Letter, Notes and Queries, Book Review

The Loss of the Ben-my-Chree (3) at Castellorizo in 1917

Vol 49, No 1, June, 2005

Forgotten Ships of Liverpool, the Empress of Scotland

                                                                                           John Shepherd

Western Ocean Interlude                                  Captain Brian Scott

De Lesseps’ Bubble that Never Burst – The Suez Canal

                                                                                                   J E Hughes

Aground at New Brighton                                  David Handscombe

The Navy League and the Lancashire Sea Training Home for Boys at Wallasey (Part 4)                                             Gordon Bodey

A Year in the Life of Northwestern Shiprepairers

                                                                                            Linton Roberts

Salt and Coal, Steam and Iron                                         Roy Fenton

Obitury    Sir Geoffrey Volelin Bates MC Bt

                                                                                     Capt B S McManus

Company Loyalty                                                  James A Pottinger

The Liverpool Nautical Research Society Annual Award

Last Voyage of the Aquitania

Sailing Day                                                                       John Fletcher

 Vol 46, No 3, December, 2002

Two Tragic Bohemians                                                   Gordon Bodey

The Saga of the Flying Enterprise                              John Shepherd

What Ship ? - Hardship !                                            James E Morris

Notes and Queries

Change of Course for Merseyside Maritime Museum?

Reports on Meetings:

          'Donkey Boiler Jets through 163 Feet of Ship'

           A Small Ship to Portugal'

The Cunard Alps and Andes of 1852

Spot the Differences ... ?    Classic Ships of the IOMSPCo

                                                                                                    Ron Evans

Ro-Ro Services, Water Transport and Opportunities

                                                                                        Alan McClelland

Vol 45, No 4, March, 2002

The Battle of Hood and Bismarck : part 1 HMS Hood

Captain Robert Pape and the Barque Maitland       Gordon Bodey

A Troubled Voyage on the ss Manipur              James A Pottinger

Devonshire Built for Mersey Owners                  Derek Blackhurst

Bibby Line - Ships and More Ships                     Christina Spencer

The Liverpool Pilotage Service in 1966                     Keith Taylor

Readers' Letters

Music to My Ears                                                                Francis Kitts

Supplementary Issue, January, 2002

Power Pioneers on the North Atlantic                    John Shepherd

Liverpool to New York, First Class, in 1902

A History of the Hales Trophy                                      David Marsh

 The 'Queens' at War

A Purser's Clerk on the Queen Elizabeth in 1963

                                                                                           John Shepherd

The First and Last Voyages of the Queen Mary

The Alsatian / Empress of France of 1914

Storm Warning : Shipping Slow to React

Vol. 45, Number 2, September 2001

Voyage with Brocklebanks to India on the ss Maihar in 1957                                                                                       James A. Pottinger

Quadrantal Confusion                                               Graeme Cubbin

Hirundo's Salvage of the Skibladner                           Gordon Bodey

The King Orry (3) at the Internment of the German High Seas' Fleet, November, 1918                                       David Handscombe

The Nestor and Ulysses of 1912

Big Boat in the Bay (part 2)                                                Ron Evans

Wartime Turn-Round of Ships                                      H.M.Hignett

Readers' Letters

Last Link with White Star - the Britannic of 1930

Volume 44, Number 4, March 2001

A Rather Thin White Line - Brocklebanks and the Second World War                                                                            John Stokoe

Liverpool and the Confederacy                              Alan McClelland

Forgotten Liners of Liverpool - The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company's Ben-my-Chree (3) of 1908                              Ron Evans

The Fall and Rise of the Locksley Hall                        Gordon Bodey

The Baltic Lighthouses. A Voyage from Kiel to St.Petersburg on the ss Philately                                                    Captain R. Flamman

Readers' Letters

The Story of Two Corvettes                                                Ron Evans

Vol 40, No 2, Autumn, 1996

The Loss of the Independence Hall                                  Gresser et al

Gellatly, Hankey & Sewall                                              David Eccles

Preston Container Trades part 3                                 Peter Kenyon

Talk by Sir Trevor Jones: report                                        P J Tebay Merseyside Memorial to Seafarers