MOUNTBATTEN MARITIME AWARD
for Best Literary Contribution

WINNER

Reginald Cogswell – Exeter: A Cruiser of the Medium Size (Navy Books)

NOMINEES

Jonathan Anderson and Edwin Low – Voyages (Lucky Panda Press/Anderson & Low)
Günter Bäbler – Guide to the Crew of Titanic: The Structure of Working Aboard the Legendary Liner (The History Press)
Peter Baseby and Roger Porteous – They Joined the Navy… and Saw the World (Blaisdon Publishing)
Janette Benaddi, Helen Butters, Niki Doeg and Frances Davies – Four Mums in a Boat (HQ/ Harper Collins)
Andrew Boyd – The Royal Navy in Eastern Waters: Linchpin of Victory 1935-1942 (Seaforth Publishing)
Nic Compton – The Shipping Forecast (BBC Books/Penguin Books)
Nic Compton – Notable Boats: Forty remarkable craft, forty great adventures (Ivy Press)
Steve R Dunn – Securing the Narrow Sea: The Dover Patrol 1914-1918 (Seaforth Publishing)
Adrian Flanagan – The Cape Horners’ Club (Adlard Coles Nautical/ Bloomsbury)
Nicholas Gray – Last Voyages (Fernhurst Books)
Philip Hoare – RisingTideFallingStar (4th Estate)
Peter Hore (Editor) – The Trafalgar Chronicle: New Series 1: Dedicated to Naval History in the Nelson Era (Seaforth Publishing)
James Irvine, Brian Budge, Jude Callister, Issy Grieve, Kevin Heath, Andrew Hollinrake, Keith Johnson, Neil Kermode, Michael Lowrey, Tom Muir, Emily Turton and Ben Wade – HMS Hampshire: A Century of Myths and Mysteries Unravelled (The Orkney Heritage Society)
Timothy Jeffery – Sail: A Tribute to the World’s Greatest Races, Sailors and their Boats (Quarto/ Aurum Press)
Larry Jeram-Croft – The Royal Navy Lynx: An Operational History (Pen and Sword Aviation)
James Kendra and Tricia Wachtendorf – American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11 (Temple University Press, USA)
Paul Kennedy – The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (Penguin Books)
Emma Jane Kirby – The Optician of Lampedusa (Penguin Books)
Robin Knight – Pangbourne College: Spirit in Changing Times (Third Millennium Publishing)
Joshua Levine – Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture (Collins)
Andrew P B Lound – RMS Titanic: Made in the Midlands (The History Press)
Peter Lyon – Merchant Seafaring Through World War I 1914-1918 (The Book Guild)
John McAleer – Britain’s Maritime Empire: Southern Africa, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, 1763-1820 (Cambridge University Press)
Christopher Martin – The UK as a Medium Maritime Power in the 21st Century: Logistics for Influence (Palgrave Macmillan)
Charlotte Mathieson (Editor) – Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600 – Present (Palgrave Macmillan)
Jane Maufe – The Frozen Frontier: Polar Bound through the Northwest Passage (Adlard Coles Nautical/ Bloomsbury)
Robert E Mullins and John Beeler (Editor) – The Transformation of British and American Naval Policy in the Pre-Dreadnought Era: Ideas, Culture and Strategy (Palgrave Macmillan)
Glen O’Hara – Politics of Water in Post-War Britain (Palgrave Macmillan)
Captain V S Parani – Golden Stripes: Leadership on the High Seas (Whittles Publishing)
Barry Pickthall – A History of Sailing in 100 Objects (Adlard Coles Nautical/ Bloomsbury)
Alistair Roach – The Life and Ship Models of Norman Ough (Seaforth Publishing)
P G Rogers – The Dutch in the Medway (Seaforth Publishing)
Jan Rüger – Heligoland: Britain, Germany and the Struggle for the North Sea (Oxford University Press)
Ian Stephen – Waypoints: Seascapes and Stories of Scotland’s West Coast (Adlard Coles Nautical/ Bloomsbury)
James Taylor – Dazzle: Disguise and Disruption in War and Art (Pool of London)
Garth Walpole and Russell Potter (Editor) – Relics of the Franklin Expedition: Discovering Artifacts from the Doomed Arctic Voyage of 1845 (McFarland & Co Inc)
Sam Warwick and Mike Roussel – Shipwrecks of the P&O Line (The History Press)
Conrad Waters (Editor) – Navies in the 21st Century (Seaforth Publishing)
A N Wilson – Resolution: A Novel of the boy who sailed with Captain Cook (Atlantic Books)
Evan Wilson – A Social History of British Naval Officers, 1775-1815 (The Boydell Press)
Stephanie Zarach – Trading History: The Baltic Exchange since the 18th Century (The Baltic Exchange)