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 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. ^[1]

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, 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 ^[2]
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, Light upon the Waters: the History of Trinity House ^[3]
2015 Barry Gough, Pax Britannica: Ruling the Waves and Keeping the Peace before Armageddon
2016 Peter Hennessy & James Jinks, 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
2020 Professor David Abulafia, The Boundless Sea: A Human History of The Oceans
2021 Andrew Boyd, British Naval Intelligence through the Twentieth Century
2022 Alysha Rooks, The Black Joke: The True Story of One British Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade

References

^ "The Mountbatten Media Awards". Retrieved 3 July 2020.
^ "Alan Villiers | Seabooks Press".
^ "BookPick: Light Upon the Waters". 3 March 2015.

[1] "The Mountbatten Media Awards". Retrieved 3 July 2020.

[2] "Alan Villiers | Seabooks Press".

[3] "BookPick: Light Upon the Waters". 3 March 2015.

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Mountbatten Maritime Prize

Recipients

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