Lloyds Register Foundation awards £10,000 to MAST to develop the RN Loss List

The Royal Navy has existed in some form for 1,000 years.

To understand its vast reach and influence across the world, MAST developed the Royal Navy Loss List, a fully searchable and downloadable free resource.

Now, thanks to a £10,000 grant from the Lloyds Register Foundation, MAST, the National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) collection database and the Ministry of Defence's Salvage & Marine database of Legacy Wrecks, are going to interlink and develop their separate resources. We will build on our knowledge of centuries of British naval and military history.

Thanks to the addition of Salmo's resource, and its inclusion of potentially leaking wrecks, the resulting new database will be useful not just for education and research but also managing the entire maritime resource globally, looking at environmental risk.

MAST CEO, Jessica Berry, said: "There is a vast gap in our knowledge of the history of the RN and the locations of the sites. The three separate databases are naturally symbiotic and would offer a far greater opportunity for researchers and overall knowledge and understanding of the RN when interlinked than as separate entities."

The NMRN CEO, Matthew Sheldon, said: "We are hugely grateful to the Lloyds Register Foundation for this grant, enabling this vital work to continue".