About
Brian Lavery has a uniquely deep and varied experience of maritime
history and archaeology, and his skills are available for consultancy.
He was born in 1945 in the shipbuilding town of Dumbarton, Scotland, and
studied at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities. He began to write books
in the 1970s, and worked for 16 years in museums, starting at Chatham
Historic Dockyard and then in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich,
where he is currently a Curator Emeritus.
He is a skilled yachtsman with experience in traditional ships and
square rig, which gives a great deal of insight into navigation and
seamanship. Though he is best known for his work on sailing ships of the
seventeenth to nineteenth century, he has also published several books
on nineteenth and twentieth century ships and navies.
This page was built by Alice Lavery