Maritime Media Awards 2018
Drapers' Hall, London
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
The Desmond Wettern Award for Best Journalism
WINNER
Christopher Cope
Political Correspondent, Warship World
NOMINEES
Sam Chambers
Editorial Director, Splash 247
Deborah Haynes
Defence Editor, The Times
Sam Llewellyn
Editor, The Marine Quarterly
Paul Ridgway
Correspondent, Seagull
John Roberts
Editor, Scuttlebutt
The Mountbatten Award for Best Book
WINNER
David Mearns – The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Deep-Sea Discoveries (Allen & Unwin)
NOMINEES
Doaa Abdel-Motaal – Antarctica: The Battle for the Seventh Continent (Praeger)
Tami Oldham Ashcraft – Adrift: A True Story of Love, Loss and Survival at Sea (William Collins)
Naomi Austin – The Call of the Sea: A Visual Timeline of Sunderland's Shipbuilding History Through to the Tall Ships Race of 2018 (Consilience Media)
Iain Ballantyne – The Deadly Trade: The Complete History of Submarine Warfare From Archimedes to the Present (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Mike Bender – A New History of Yachting (Boydell Press)
Sally Berridge – The Epic Voyages of Maud Berridge: The Seafaring Diaries of a Victorian Lady (Adlard Coles Nautical)
Kathy Brogan, Russ Bagley, John Barker – If Hovercraft Can Go Anywhere, How Did We End Up Here? (Shivering Sheep)
Steven Price Brown – Riddle of the Waves (Adlard Coles)
Steve Bush – The Fotoflite Files, Volume 1: Royal Navy Warships (NavyBooks)
Horatio Clare – Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North (Chatto & Windus)
Nic Compton – Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea (Adlard Coles)
Caspar Craven – Where the Magic Happens: How a Young Family Changed Their Lives and Sailed Around the World (Adlard Coles)
Kaci Cronkhite – Finding Pax: One Woman's Journey for the Love of her Wooden Boat (Adlard Coles)
Anthony Cumming – In Action with Destroyers 1939–1945: The Wartime Memoirs of Commander J A J Dennis DSC RN (Pen & Sword Maritime)
J. David Davies – Kings of the Sea: Charles II, James II and the Royal Navy (Seaforth Publishing)
Steve Dunn – Bayly's War: The Battle for the Western Approaches in the First World War (Seaforth Publishing)
Bernard Edwards – Churchill's Thin Grey Line: British Merchant Ships at War 1939–1945 (Pen & Sword Maritime)
Barry Gough – Churchill and Fisher: Titans at the Admiralty (Seaforth Publishing)
Dik Gregory and Paul Shanahan – Being Human in Safety-Critical Organisations: How People Create Safety, What Stops Them and What to Do About It (TSO)
David Hobbs – The Royal Navy's Air Service in the Great War (Seaforth Publishing)
Gillian Hutchinson – Sir John Franklin's Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found (Adlard Coles)
Sam Jefferson – The Sea Devil: The Adventures of Count Felix von Luckner, the Last Raider under Sail (Osprey Publishing)
Sarah Kinkel – Disciplining the Empire: Politics, Governance, and the Rise of the British Navy (Harvard University Press)
Rod Macdonald – Dive Scapa Flow (Whittles Publishing)
Martin Mace – The Royal Navy at Dunkirk: Commanding Officers’ Accounts of British Warships in Action During Operation Dynamo (Frontline Books)
John McWilliams – British Motor Fishing Vessels (Amberley Publishing)
Jonathan North – Nelson at Naples: Revolution and Retribution in 1799 (Amberley Publishing)
Nicholas Rankin – Defending the Rock: How Gibraltar Defeated Hitler (Faber & Faber)
Samuel Robinson – Ocean Science and the British Cold War State (Palgrave Macmillan)
Rachel Slade – Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro (Ecco Press)
Robert C Stern – The Battleship Holiday: The Naval Treaties and Capital Ship Design (Seaforth Publishing)
Eric Thompson – On Her Majesty's Nuclear Service (Casemate Publishers)
Adam Weymouth – Kings of the Yukon: An Alaskan River Journey (Particular Books)
Rif Winfield and Stephen S Roberts – French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626–1786 (Seaforth Publishing)
The Donald Gosling Award for Best Television or Film Production
WINNER
Nick Maddocks and Andy Attenburrow
Hull's Headscarf Heroes
Testimony Films (BBC Four)
NOMINEES
Rachael Barnes
Saving Lives at Sea
Blast! Films (BBC Two)
Stephanie DeGroote
Sky Ocean Rescue: Dirty Business
Sky News (Sky Atlantic)
Baltasar Kormákur
Adrift
STX Entertainment (Box office, Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD)
Ben Laidlow
Dispatches: Secrets of Your Cruise
ITN Productions (Channel 4)
Giles Martin-Raget
Les Voiles de St Tropez
GMR+G1 (France)
Andy Richards
Britain Afloat
BBC English Regions (BBC One)
Rebecca Ricks
Fish Wars
Forces TV (Forces TV)
Will Rowson
The Channel: The World’s Busiest Waterway
Blast! Films (Channel 4)
Crispin Sadler
Drain the Sunken Pirate City
Mallinson Sadler Productions (National Geographic)
Chris Terrill
Britain's Biggest Warship
Uppercut Films / STV Productions (BBC Two)
The First Sea Lord’s Award for Best Use of Digital Media
WINNER
The Mary Rose
www.maryrose.org
NOMINEES
BIMCO
www.bimco.org
Global Fishing Watch
www.globalfishingwatch.org
Great British Oceans
www.greatbritishoceans.org
Maritime Journal
www.maritimejournal.com
Project Natick
natick.research.microsoft.com
Nautilus – What Have Seafarers Ever Done for Us?
www.nautilusint.org
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC)
www.emec.org.uk
The Great Plastic Pickup (Daily Mail)
www.greatplasticpickup.org
The Lifeboat Station Project
www.lifeboatstationproject.com
The Royal Society: Future Ocean Resources
www.royalsociety.org
The Maritime Fellowship Award
WINNER
Sir David Attenborough
The Desmond Wettern Fleet Award
WINNER
HMS Duncan
Lifetime Achievement Award
WINNER
Anthony Harvey