Awards Nominations

Full List of Nominations for the Maritime Media Awards 2022

Published: 1 February 2023

The Desmond Wettern Award for Best Journalism

The Award is made to the journalist whose writing, in the opinion of the Awards Committee, has made the most constructive contribution to generating public awareness of current maritime issues during the qualifying period.

The Mountbatten Award for Best Book

The Award is made to the author of the work of literature published in English during the qualifying period that, in the opinion of the Awards Committee, has contributed most significantly to public awareness of maritime issues.

  • Robert Ballard – Into the Deep: A Memoir from the Man Who Found Titanic (National Geographic)
  • Malcolm and Reg Batten – Shipping on the Thames and the Port of London During the 1940s–1980s (Pen and Sword Transport)
  • Claude Berube – On Wide Seas: The US Navy in the Jacksonian Era (University Alabama Press)
  • Mensun Bound – The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance (Pan Macmillan)
  • Les Brown – British Sloops and Frigates of the Second World War (Seaforth Publishing)
  • Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel – Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World's Most Secretive Industry (Atlantic Books)
  • Nick Collins – How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World: Ice Age to Mid-Eighth Century (Pen and Sword)
  • Doreen Cunningham – Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales (Virago)
  • David Saul – SBS: Silent Warriors - The Authorised Wartime History (William Collins)
  • Aidan Dodson and Dirk Nottelmann – The Kaiser's Cruisers, 1871-1918 (Seaforth Publishing)
  • Sylvia Earle – Ocean: A Global Odyssey (National Geographic)
  • Richard Endsor – The Master Shipwright's Secrets: How Charles II built the Restoration Navy (Osprey Publishing)
  • Graeme Ewens – The Life of a Boat: The ‘nautobiography’ of a 90-year-old lifesaver (Buku Press)
  • Felipe Fernández-Armesto – Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan (Bloomsbury Publishing)
  • John Goodlad – The Salt Roads: How Fish Made a Culture (Birlinn)
  • Florian Grisel – The Limits of Private Governance: Norms and Rules in a Mediterranean Fishery (Hart Publishing)
  • Monty Halls – Commando: The Inside Story of Britain’s Royal Marines (BBC Books)
  • Mark Harris – Harwich Submarines in the Great War: The first submarine campaign of the Royal Navy in 1914 (Helion & Company)
  • Stuart Heaver – The Coal Black Sea: Winston Churchill and the Worst Naval Catastrophe of the First World War (The History Press)
  • David Hepper – British Warship Losses in the Modern Era (Seaforth Publishing)
  • Brian Lane Herder – East China Sea 1945: Climax of the Kamikaze (Osprey Publishing)
  • James R Holmes – Habits of Highly Effective Maritime Strategists (US Naval Institute)
  • David Hutchings – Illustrated Mauretania (1907): Notable Episodes in the Life of a Legend (The History Press)
  • Julia Jones – Uncommon Courage: The Yachtsmen Volunteers of World War II (Adlard Coles)
  • Richard M Jones – The 50 Greatest Shipwrecks (Pen and Sword)
  • Robert D Jones – To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World's Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers (Scribner Book Company)
  • Alston Kennerley – Bullen's Voyages: The Life of Frank T Bullen: Sailor, Whaler, Author (Seaforth Publishing)
  • Angus Konstam – British Gunboats of the Victoria's Empire (Osprey Publishing)
  • Christian Lamb – Beyond the Sea - A WREN at War (Mardle Books)
  • Mark Lardas – Arctic Convoys 1942: The Luftwaffe cuts Russia's lifeline (Osprey Publishing)
  • Brian Lavery – Anson's Navy: Building a Fleet for Empire, 1744-1763 (Seaforth Publishing)
  • Simon Medhurst – Titanic: Day by Day: 366 days with the Titanic (Pen and Sword)
  • John Messner – A Scottish Blockade Runner in the American Civil War - Joannes Wyllie of the steamer Ad-Vance (Whittles Publishing)
  • Tom Nancollas – The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels (Particular Books)
  • Michael North – A World History of the Seas: From Harbour to Horizon (Bloomsbury Academic)
  • Captain Chris O’Flaherty RN – Torpedoes, Tea, and Medals: The Gallant Life of Commander D. G. H. 'Jake' Wright DSC** RNVR (Casemate Publishers)
  • Lawrence Paterson – The U-Boat War: A Global History, 1939–45 (Osprey Publishing)
  • Stephen Roberts – French Warships in the Age of Steam, 1859-1914 (Seaforth Publishing)
  • Alysha Rooks – The Black Joke: The True Story of One British Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade (Icon Books)
  • Brian Short – The Band That Went to War: The Royal Marines Band in the Falklands War (Pen and Sword)
  • Mark Simmons – Alistair MacLean's War: How the Royal Navy Shaped his Bestsellers (Pen and Sword)
  • Brendan Simms and Steven McGregor – The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway (PublicAffairs)
  • Nicholas Stephenson Smith – Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea: A History of Violence from 1830 to the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press)
  • Alan Smith – Balchen's Victory: The Loss and Rediscovery of an Admiral and His Ship (Seaforth Publishing)
  • Mike Smylie – The Noble Boatbuilders of Fraserburgh (The History Press)
  • Ray Solly – BP Shipping Pictorial: The Golden Years 1945-1975 (Whittles Publishing)
  • Guy Standing – The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea (Pelican Books)
  • Jeremy Stoke – More Lives Than a Ship’s Cat: The Most Highly Decorated Midshipman in the Second World War (Pen and Sword)
  • Daniel Stone – Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic (Dutton)
  • Eric Tagliacozzo – In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama (Princeton University Press)
  • Chris Terrill – How to Build an Aircraft Carrier: The Incredible Story of the Men and Women Who Brought Britain’s Biggest Warship to Life (Michael Joseph)
  • Keith Thomson – Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas (Little, Brown and Company)
  • Mary Wardle – Always At Sea (Whittles Publishing)
  • Claes-Göran Wetterholm – Sea of Death: The Baltic, 1945 (The History Press)
  • Tracey Williams – Adrift: The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost at Sea (Unicorn Publishing)
  • Gordon Williamson – Hitler's Navy: The Kriegsmarine in World War II (Osprey Publishing)
  • Matthew Wright – The Battlecruiser New Zealand: A Gift to Empire (Seaforth Publishing)

The Donald Gosling Award for Best Television or Film Production

The Award is made to the director, producer, or other person responsible for making the film or television programme, released or broadcast in the United Kingdom during the qualifying period, that in the opinion of the Awards Committee has made the most significant contribution to the public understanding of maritime matters.

  • Alessandra Bonomolo & Tom Cook
    Why Ships Crash
    Windfall Films (BBC Two)
  • Nicolas Brénéol
    Titanic: Building the World's Largest Ship
    Ah! Production (Channel 4)
  • David Gilbert
    Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom
    Screen Story (Channel 4)
  • AmyLouise Godby
    Ross Kemp: Shipwreck Treasure Hunter
    Honey Bee & Freshwater Films (Sky History)
  • Christian Hills
    Devon and Cornwall: Fishing Lives
    True North Productions (Channel 4)
  • Craig Hunter, Rosy Marshall-McCrae, Russ Leven & Heather McCorriston
    What Killed the Whale?
    STV Studios (Channel 4)
  • David Mackay
    Saving Lives at Sea
    blast! By The Sea (BBC Two)
  • Mel Mackie
    Commando: Britain's Ocean Warriors
    Seadog Productions (BBC Two)
  • John Madden
    Operation Mincemeat
    Warner Brothers (General Release)
  • Bob Marsden
    Lighthouses: Building the Impossible
    October Films (Channel 5)
  • Rob McCabe
    The Sinking of the Costa Concordia: Collision at Sea
    ITN Productions (Channel 5)
  • Kate Ogborn
    The North Water
    See-Saw Films (BBC Two)
  • Crispin Sadler
    Drain the Oceans
    Mallinson Sadler Productions (National Geographic & Channel 5)
  • Robert Seligman
    Vigil
    World Productions (BBC One)
  • Rachel Smith
    Warship: Life at Sea
    Artlab Films (Channel 5)
  • Tim Usborne
    Submarine: Life under the Waves
    Artlab Films (Channel 5)
  • Mark Williams
    Secrets of the River Clyde
    Viacom (Channel 5)

The Babcock International First Sea Lord’s Award for Best Use of Digital Media

The Award is made to the team or person who, in the opinion of the Awards Committee, has made the most constructive contribution to generating awareness of current maritime issues through digital media, including websites, handheld device applications, or social media networks.

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The Maritime Media Awards is attended by prominent members of the international maritime community and media.

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Terms and conditions

The Awards Committee has absolute discretion to refuse any nomination that does not in its opinion meet the eligibility criteria and reserves the right to reassign nominations to a category it believes is most suited to the information provided in the nomination.

The Judges’ decision is final and no communication will be entered into regarding any decisions made.

The winners of the Maritime Media Awards 2022 will be announced by the Maritime Foundation.

Photographs of the winners will be published on the Maritime Foundation website.