The best Maritime History newsletters

A retired seafarer's personal memoir series recounting his path from RAF service and a bank job into training and work as a Marconi radio officer and shore technician. It offers vivid, anecdotal accounts of maritime radio training, life at sea, and family history.

A serialized dark historical fiction chronicle following survival, trauma and retribution across the 18th-century Atlantic. The issues promote the story through reader reviews that praise its voice, historical detail and characters while noting pacing and chapter-numbering problems.