The Maritime Fellowship Award
The Award, for which the nomination is made by the Maritime Media Awards Committee, honours an individual who has made a truly outstanding contribution to stimulating public engagement in maritime issues in a manner that has a special or cumulative value and is not covered by the other Maritime Media Awards.
This contribution may have been made either through a lifetime of dedicated service or through a leading role in realising a particular project, such as, a major nautical festival, the consistently imaginative editing of a well-respected maritime publication or the development of a particular maritime sector.

Judging criteria

Recent Award Winners
2016 Crispin Sadler
2017 Iain Ballantyne and John Murray
2018 Sir David Attenborough
2019 Sir Donald Gosling (posthumously)
2020 No award given (COVID-19)
2021 Julian Parker OBE
The prize is a hand-blown Athena crystal bowl with a detachable engraved silver base.
Please note: From 2022, prizes may differ due to changes to the Awards programme.