The Mountbatten Maritime Award is awarded annually by the
Maritime Foundation
The Maritime Foundation is a registered British charity that promotes maritime interests in the United Kingdom.
History
In 1981, British merchant shipping interests founded two complementary organizations, the British Maritime League, a membersh ...
(formerly the British Maritime Charitable Foundation) to the author of a distinguished publication that has made a significant contribution to the maritime history of the United Kingdom. The prize is a piece of silver plate. Before 2018 it was known as The Mountbatten Maritime Award for Best Literary Contribution. From 2018 it is known as The Mountbatten Award for Best Book. The Trustees of the Maritime Foundation award the prize based on the recommendation of an Awards Committee.
Recipients
Source
Maritime Foundation
Mountbatten Maritime Award
* 2000 Rear-Admiral
J. Richard Hill
Rear Admiral John Richard Hill (25 March 1929 – 25 March 2017) was a rear-admiral in the Royal Navy, a former chief executive of the Middle Temple, author, and editor of many books on naval affairs.
Early life and education
Richard Hill was bor ...
* 2001
Jim Ring, ''We Come Unseen''
* 2002
Andrew Williams and the BBC Battle of the Atlantic Team
* 2003
Peter Padfield
Peter L. N. Padfield (3 April 1932 – 14 March 2022) was a British author, biographer, historian, and journalist who specialised in naval history and in the Second World War period. His early journalism appeared under the name P. L. N. Padfield. ...
, ''Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom''
* 2004
Tom Pocock, ''Stopping Napoleon - War and Intrigue in the Mediterranean''
* 2005 Professor
R. J. B. Knight, ''The Pursuit of Victory - The Life and Achievements of Horatio Nelson''
* 2006
Nicolette Jones, ''The Plimsoll Sensation''
* 2007
Captain Andrew Welch FNI RN Rtd, ''The Royal Navy and the Cod Wars''
* 2008
Tim Clayton, ''Tars: The Men who Made Britain Rule the Waves''
* 2009
Kate Lance, ''Alan Villiers: Voyager of the Winds''
* 2010
Richard Guilliatt &
Peter Hohnen, ''The Wolf: How One German Raider Terrorised the Southern Seas during the First World War''
* 2011
David Abulafia, ''
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean''
* 2014
Andrew Adams &
Richard Woodman
Captain Richard Martin Woodman LVO (born 1944) is an English novelist and naval historian who retired in 1997 from a 37-year nautical career, mainly working for Trinity House, to write full-time.
Writing
His main work is 14 novels about the ca ...
, ''Light upon the Waters: the History of Trinity House''
* 2015
Barry Gough
Barry Morton Gough is a global maritime and naval historian.
Education
Gough was educated at Victoria High School and was a 1957 graduate of Victoria College, which preceded University of Victoria. He completed his bachelor of education degree ...
, ''Pax Britannica: Ruling the Waves and Keeping the Peace before Armageddon''
* 2016
Peter Hennessy
Peter John Hennessy, Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield, (born 28 March 1947) is an English historian and academic specialising in the history of government. Since 1992, he has been Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary Unive ...
&
James Jinks
James is a common English language surname and given name:
*James (name), the typically masculine first name James
* James (surname), various people with the last name James
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People
* King James (disambiguati ...
, ''The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945''
* 2017
Reginald Cogswell, ''Exeter: A Cruiser of the Medium Size''
Mountbatten Award
* 2018
David Mearns
David Louis Mearns, OAM, M.Sc. (born 10 August 1958), is an American-born United Kingdom based marine scientist and oceanographer, who specializes in deep water search and recovery operations, and the discovery of the location of historic shipwr ...
, ''The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Deep-Sea Discoveries''
* 2019
Rachel Slade, ''Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro''
See also
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List of history awards
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List of literary awards
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International awards
All nationalities & multiple languages eligible (in chronological order)
* Nobel Prize in Literature – since 1901 ...
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See also
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* List of awards named after governors- ...
References
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Mountbatten Maritime Prize
The Mountbatten Maritime Award is awarded annually by the Maritime Foundation (formerly the British Maritime Charitable Foundation) to the author of a distinguished publication that has made a significant contribution to the maritime history of t ...
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History awards
Awards established in 2000
2000 establishments in the United Kingdom
Maritime history of the United Kingdom