We are very proud that The National Maritime Museum was awarded the Trip Advisor Award of Excellence in 2014
The Dutch East India Company had a total of six shipyards: Amsterdam, Hoorn, Enkhuizen, Delft, Rotterdam and Middelburg. But the largest and most important by far was Amsterdam.
Flags have been used at sea for centuries. They allow ships to identify the country another ship hails from at a glance. On warships, flags...
The first optical telegraph messages sent over great distances were transmitted at the end of the eighteenth century. In 1838, the American painter, inventor and professor Samuel Morse (1791-1872) invented the alphabet that would come to be known as Morse code.
How far is a nautical mile? Surprisingly, it was not until 1929 that a body of countries agreed in Monaco that the sea mile (officially, the international nautical mile) measures 1,851.8 metres.
