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The Lloyd's Register Foundation Heritage Centre explores the importance & development of maritime safety and classification.
Visit our SHE_SEES #exhibition this summer – now open until December 2025 in Boathouse 4 at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard! Join us for free and uncover the extensive history of trailblazing female voices in the #maritime industry.
Find out more: loom.ly/EHyWZsc
Frozen at Sea🌊
All kinds of freezing conditions affected ships and their crews:
🧊Ports iced up in winter
🧊Icebergs and sea ice
🧊Sea spray turning into ice
🧊Frostbite
Learn more about the safety hazards of ice and the impact ships and their crew 🔗 hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/sto...
FINAL REMINDER!📣
The Heritage Centre is currently hiring three new roles:
✔️Archive Officer
✔️Collections Assistant
✔️Collections Data and Systems Manager
🚨Deadline: 8th August
Apply 🔗 www.lr.org/en/careers/
⛵Return to Tradition: Are Sails Making A Comeback?
Did the age of "sail” end in the 19th century with the introduction of the steam engine? Read about the rise of sail again🔗👉 hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/sto...
Seoul National University and Lloyd's Register Foundation are working together to champion the role of women in #engineering. Professor Yonghwan Kim, Director of the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Research Center for Safety of Future Ship, shares his thoughts below 👇
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REMINDER!📣The Heritage Centre is currently hiring three new roles:
✔️Archive Officer
✔️Collections Assistant
✔️Collections Data and Systems Manager
Find out more and to apply 🔗 www.lr.org/en/careers/
The first rating agency: Lloyd’s Register’s first century📣
Peter Solar reconstructs the business history of Lloyd’s Register, the world’s first rating agency, from its founding in 1760 to around 1860
Read 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Call for Papers - Maritime Britain 1550 - 1750📣
📆16-17 September 2025
📍University of Southampton
Proposals are invited for papers that cover the three key themes over the period 1550-1750:
🌊Seaborne Trade
🌊Shipping
🌊Maritime Communities
Find out more 🔗 www.maritimehistory.org.uk/documents/Ca...
The Lloyd’s Register Foundation Heritage Centre is currently #hiring for three new roles. Find out more below and join our growing team!
Archive Officer - https://loom.ly/MIDaJbo
Collections Assistant - https://loom.ly/XOnm82U
Collections Data and Systems Manager - https://loom.ly/bZ0hx58
Congratulations Dr Sam Wright 👏
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📸 Hannah Mills at Portsmouth Historic Quarter last week at the unveiling of her new SHE_SEES portrait
Visit SHE_SEES at Boathouse 4, now open until December 2025 ✨
🌟 We are #hiring! 🌟 Join our team as a Collections Assistant
📖Cataloguing and QA of digital asset descriptions.
📙Assist with the production of library and archive material
📘Assist with enquiries
📕Support on the day to day upkeep of the library and archive
Apply 🔗 jobs.lr.org/job/London-C...
How can history support a safe and sustainable future ocean economy? In this blog, Louise Sanger, Head of Research, Interpretation and Engagement at Lloyd's Register Foundation's Heritage Centre, explains why learning from failure and success is a key part of making things safer.
🔗 loom.ly/fNp0sY4
Behind the scenes of the Hannah Mills shoot 📸 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDGS...
✨Watch Hannah Mills for Emirates GB in Sail GP, 19-20th July in Portsmouth
📍Sandbanks, Dorset
Hannah Mills OBE
Double Olympic Gold medallist, record-breaking sailor and strategist for the Emirates GB team in Sail GP and the driving force behind Athena Pathways.
SHE_SEES now extended until December 2025 at Boathouse 4, Portsmouth Historic Quarter.
🌟 We are #hiring! 🌟 Join our team as an Archive Officer
📖Maintain and update a mixed collection of archive, library and museum objects
📙Process uncatalogued heritage collections
📘Support on outreach projects
📕Assist with archive moves and reading room service
Apply: jobs.lr.org/job/London-A...
Lloyd's Register Foundation are hiring an Events Manager📣 The role will:
✔️Support the Strategic Communications team on organising smaller workshops and round tables
✔️Build the Lloyds’ Register building events programme
✔️Deliver a small-scale annual ‘Impact Showcase’
www.lr.org/en/careers/l...
The Heritage Centre has launched its new Research Key Themes.
🌊Shipwrecks and Maritime Disaster
🌊Equity and Transparency
🌊Transitions
A clear framework of work priorities for the Heritage Centre in alignment with the Lloyd’s Register Foundation strategy. 🔗 hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/about-us/key...
UK Maritime Heritage Forum, booking now open!
📆Sunday 19 – Tuesday 21 October
📍National Museum of Scotland
This year's theme is "Staying Afloat, caring for and sharing our maritime heritage."
Book here 🔗 www.nms.ac.uk/events/uk-ma...
Read the latest UArctic blog! 📣 Fellow Daniel Oliver Paulsen, a PhD Candidate at the University of Bergen, explores the changing nature of ‘seamanship’ and what it means for safety.🚢🔗 www.lrfoundation.org.uk/news/underst...
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📣We are hiring! 📣 Lloyd's Register Foundation are currently hiring for an Events Manager to manage the Lloyds’ Register building events programme, liaise with suppliers and support with external events and workshops. Apply 🔗👉 www.lr.org/en/careers/l...
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Excited to announce that Lloyd's Register Foundation has been shortlisted by Charity Times for the Digital Transformation of the Year award! 🏆
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For the first time in 30 years, the complete British Corporation Register Collection now under one roof 🙌
Read more about the collections returned from The Ballast Trust and the University of Glasgow 🔗👏 hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/new...
On Day of the Seafarer, we celebrate those who power global trade and reflect on what the future of seafaring could look like. In this blog, Professor Momoko Kitada from the World Maritime University reflects on our recently published 'Deep dive on seafarer sustainability' report. loom.ly/E1C6t10
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Happy International Women in Engineering Day #INWED25
Watch this film produced by Historic England to encourage more people to help tell the story of Women in Shipbuilding and Engineering by sharing their own photographs, stories and memorabilia. 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8POM...
The vessel had a docking survey in February 1948 and departed from Southampton on the 7th May with the assigned notation “examined LR 2.48” which was valid for 12 months. Class was then withdrawn in December that year.
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Sunday marks Windrush Day, to honour the contributions of migrants to the post-war economy. LR surveyed Empire Windrush for the transportation of 1,027 passengers from the Caribbean to the UK in 1948
20.06.2025 10:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Read our latest edition of Dispatch, the Heritage Centre's magazine 👇
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Conference participants visit the Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
Conference participants visit the SHE_SEES exhibition about women in the maritime sector.
It's always exciting to introduce Portsmouth & its heritage to international visitors. The Mary Rose Museum and the SHE_SEES exhibition were very popular with delegates from the Port Cities and Maritime Cultures International Conference. Thank you @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social @phdockyard.bsky.social
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Thank you to all presenters and attendees for your fascinating presentations & questions at the Port Cities and Maritime Cultures International Conference at the University of Portsmouth. We've all learned a great deal! Watch this space for future collaborations and events www.port.ac.uk/portcities
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