Category : Foundation News

Rear Admiral Philip Wilcocks will open this year’s Maritime Debate at the Hay Festival with a speech on the importance of the Royal Navy

Former Shadow Defence Minister Julian Lewis and veteran marine broadcaster and journalist Tom MacSweeney are to speak at this year’s Hay Festival.

The Maritime Foundation is supporting Seafarers Awareness Week (6-12 June), the UK’s annual promotion of events and activities that focus on the essential work done by seafarers to keep our island nation supplied with fuel, food and goods. Now in its third year, Seafarers Awareness Week provides a great focus for Seafarers UK and beneficiary [...]

Supporters of the Maritime Foundation will be sorry to learn that Mike Plumridge died on Sunday 10th April.

The Maritime Foundation is featured in a new BBC Television programme which is hosted by James Landale.

The Maritime Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of Commander Sue Eagles QVRM RD RNR as the Foundation’s new Director

Set as it is amid the lush green, rolling hills of the Welsh borders, you can’t get much further from the sea in the United Kingdom than the small town of Hay-on-Wye. However, it is also the living embodiment of the fact that in the UK you can never really escape the sea, for nowhere [...]

Royal Marine Corps of Drums to mark D-Day anniversary at literary event DAN Snow is to host a debate on the defence of the realm and the importance of the development and protection of trade at this year’s Hay Festival. The TV presenter, whose BBC series based on the book Empire of the Seas, was [...]