Mountbatten Maritime Prize The Mountbatten Maritime Award is awarded annually by the Maritime Foundation (formerly the British Maritime Charitable Foundation) to the author of a distinguished publication that has made a significant contribution to the maritime history of the United Kingdom. The prize is a piece of silver plate. Before 2018 it was known as The Mountbatten Maritime Award for Best Literary Contribution . From 2018 it is known as The Mountbatten Award for Best Book . The Trustees of the Maritime Foundation award the prize based on the recommendation of an Awards Committee.
Recipients
Source: Maritime Foundation
Mountbatten Maritime Award
2000 Rear-Admiral J. Richard Hill
2001 Jim Ring , We Come Unseen
2002 Andrew Williams and the BBC Battle of the Atlantic Team
2003 Peter Padfield , Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom
2004 Tom Pocock , Stopping Napoleon - War and Intrigue in the Mediterranean
2005 Professor R. J. B. Knight , The Pursuit of Victory - The Life and Achievements of Horatio Nelson
2006 Nicolette Jones , The Plimsoll Sensation
2007 Captain Andrew Welch FNI RN Rtd , The Royal Navy and the Cod Wars
2008 Tim Clayton , Tars: The Men who Made Britain Rule the Waves
2009 Kate Lance , Alan Villiers: Voyager of the Winds
2010 Richard Guilliatt & Peter Hohnen , The Wolf: How One German Raider Terrorised the Southern Seas during the First World War
2011 David Abulafia , The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
2014 Andrew Adams & Richard Woodman , Light upon the Waters: the History of Trinity House
2015 Barry Gough , Pax Britannica: Ruling the Waves and Keeping the Peace before Armageddon
2016 Peter Hennessy & James Jinks , The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945
2017 Reginald Cogswell , Exeter: A Cruiser of the Medium Size Mountbatten Award
2018 David Mearns , The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Deep-Sea Discoveries
2019 Rachel Slade , Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
2020 Professor David Abulafia , The Boundless Sea: A Human History of The Oceans
2021 Andrew Boyd , British Naval Intelligence through the Twentieth Century
2022 Alysha Rooks , The Black Joke: The True Story of One British Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade