National Historic Ships Website

This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the National Historic Ships website. [Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive].

Please see information at Divisional level

• Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1997-2017
• National Historic Ships, 2006-2006

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Official publications

National Historic Ships was established in 2006 as a non-departmental public body reporting to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport with a specific remit to advise the Secretary of State and other public bodies on ship preservation and funding priorities. It is the successor to the National Historic Ships Committee, which emerged from a seminar held in 1991 to discuss the problems facing the preservation of historic ships and vessels in the UK.

National Historic Ships carries a wider remit than its predecessor body, looking not only at the immediate issues concerning historic vessels in the UK, but also addressing questions relating to the support infrastructure for historic ships, their potential for contributing in the wider economic, social and community context, and by maintaining a watch list of vessels abroad with potential UK significance.