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 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 * 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 James or James City may also refer to: 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, ''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''

References

{{Reflist Mountbatten Maritime Prize * History awards Awards established in 2000 2000 establishments in the United Kingdom Maritime history of the United Kingdom

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