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The Mariner's Mirror Podcast

The Mariner's Mirror Podcast

Di: The Society for Nautical Research and the Lloyds Register Foundation
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 The world's No.1 podcast dedicated to all of maritime and naval history. With one foot in the present and one in the past we bring you the most exciting and interesting current maritime projects worldwide: including excavations of shipwrecks, the restoration of historic ships, sailing classic yachts and tall ships, unprecedented behind the scenes access to exhibitions, museums and archives worldwide, primary sources and accounts that bring the maritime past alive as never before. From the Society for Nautical Research, and the Lloyds Register Foundation. Presented by Dr Sam Willis.

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  • Titanic’s Greatest Legacy: How Disaster Made the Sea Safer

    Titanic’s Greatest Legacy: How Disaster Made the Sea Safer
    Oct 26 2026
    More than a century after she sank, Titanic remains the most famous shipwreck in history. But her greatest legacy may lie not in the wreck itself, but in the safer maritime world that followed. In this episode of the Mariner’s Mirror Podcast, Sam Willis speaks with Louise Sanger of Lloyd’s Register Foundation, whose recent work has explored the impact of the Titanic disaster on global maritime safety. Together they trace the extraordinary story of how catastrophe became regulation: from lifeboats, wireless watches and the International Ice Patrol to SOLAS, the international convention that still underpins safety at sea today. They also explore the later disasters—from the Empress of Ireland and Herald of Free Enterprise to the Exxon Valdez—that exposed new weaknesses and forced the maritime world to learn again. And, for the historically inquisitive, we finally reveal the identity of the mysterious “Pious Poisoner” whose name appeared beside the first Titanic headlines on London newspaper boards in April 1912.

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    31 min
  • Writing Home from Trafalgar: A Sailor’s Extraordinary Story

    Writing Home from Trafalgar: A Sailor’s Extraordinary Story
    Oct 21 2026

    On 21 October 1805, HMS Victory led the British fleet into one of the most famous battles in naval history. But what was Trafalgar really like for the ordinary sailors who fought it? Six weeks after the battle, David Johns, a Welsh sailor from Kidwelly in Carmarthenshire, sat aboard Victory at Spithead and wrote a remarkable letter to his parents. He described the terrifying intensity of the fighting, the enemy ships surrounding Victory, and the death of Admiral Nelson. His words offer a rare and deeply personal account of Trafalgar, written before the battle had passed into legend.


    In this episode, we bring Johns's letter to life and explore its extraordinary story with historian, novelist and expert on Welsh maritime history J. D. Davies. Together, we discover a Trafalgar far removed from the familiar world of admirals, monuments and grand strategy: a battle experienced through smoke, splinters, cannon fire and the desperate struggle to survive. It is also a reminder of the often-overlooked Welsh contribution to British naval history, and of the thousands of ordinary men whose experiences made Trafalgar much more than Nelson's victory.

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    33 min
  • SS Explorer: The Ship Built to Understand the Sea

    SS Explorer: The Ship Built to Understand the Sea
    Oct 12 2026
    When we think of historic ships, we tend to picture warships, explorers and celebrated voyages. SS Explorer is a different kind of maritime hero: a ship built not to conquer the sea, but to understand it. In this episode, recorded on board the Explorer in Leith, Scotland, we explore how this pioneering 1950s fisheries research vessel became a floating laboratory, measuring fish, plankton, currents, temperature and salinity to answer an increasingly urgent question: could the sea continue providing indefinitely? The painstaking science conducted aboard Explorer helped transform our understanding of the oceans from an inexhaustible larder into a living ecosystem—and laid foundations for modern fisheries management and marine conservation. Now undergoing restoration she is a rare survivor from a transformative period in Britain’s scientific and maritime history.

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    41 min
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