Society for Nautical Research
The Society for Nautical Research (SNR) is a British marine history society founded in 1910. The seat is in Greenwich (London) .
It has around 1,600 members from over 30 countries (2013) and is thematically international.
In 1921 she organized a fundraiser for the preservation of the HMS Victory . Preserving them is still one of their tasks today. In 1926, she also supervised their restoration in the dry dock. She is also committed to the preservation of other historic ships, supports research on naval history and underwater archeology, makes purchases for the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, which she helped establish in 1934 and whose first director Geoffrey Callender , honorary secretary and treasurer of the SNR, was. She was also involved in the establishment of the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth (1938), which arose from the Society's Victory Museum, and in the establishment of the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth , which, in addition to Cornwall's naval history, also houses the collection includes smaller craft that was previously in Greenwich.
It organizes conferences and symposiums and publishes the journal Mariner's Mirror , which has been published quarterly since 1911.
Patron is currently the Admiral Duke of Edinburgh and President is the Duke of York (2013).