This edition of Nautilus focuses and celebrates the historic 120 years of Greek-Japanese commercial and maritime relations

The main theme of this year’s ‘Nautilus’ is the history and development of communications at sea. From the first signals, developed by Morse in the 18th century, through το the wireless systems invented by Marconi in the 19th century.

This annual edition is dedicated to the memory of the late Nicholas C. Los, the pioneering founder of the Chios Maritime Museum.

The research of historian Dr Athena Zaharou-Loutari was the inspiration behind publishing this special edition chronicling the catalogues of Chian ships from the archives of 19th century scholar Constantine Kanellakis. The catalogues are a record of a large number of...