The Dawlish Chronicles Blog, 2018 Fourteen Personal Favourites The Dawlish Chronicles blog appeared through the year 2018, two articles most weeks, a total of some ninety which together represent as much as an average book. This was run in parallel with the writing of the Dawlish Chronicles novels – the latest of which, Britannia’s Mission, was published [...]
Rescue against all odds: Pellew and the Dutton 1796 Edward Pellew We’ve met Edward Pellew (1757 – 1833) on this blog before (Click here to read) and it’s probable that we’ll meet him again as he ranks just below Nelson, and certainly with Cochrane, as one of the [...]
The First Battle between Steamships: Vladimir vs. Pervaz-i-Bahri, 1853 The end of the Age of Fighting Sail was a process that straggled through the 1820s and 30s and 40s as steam power became increasingly reliable. The last full fleet action with sailing vessels was the Battle of Navarino in 1827, when combined British, French and Russian [...]
Naval Artists of the 18th Century – Part 5, Nicholas Pocock Nicholas Pocock In earlier articles in this occasional series of blogs (click here for bloglist) we have met artists – such as Thomas Luny and Richard Paton – who had experience of life at sea before (or sometimes during) their careers [...]
The Crimean War’s White Sea Theatre, 1854 This article tells about British naval operations in the White Sea in 1854. The Crimean War (1854 – 56) is most remembered for images of the charge of Britain’s Light Brigade at Balaclava, the privations suffered by the ill-equipped besiegers of Sevastopol through a deadly winter [...]
HMS Redwing – odds of one to seven, 1808 Sir Thomas Ussher Sir Thomas Ussher (1779–1848) was one of the younger generation of Royal Navy officers who served in the Napoleonic wars and who, though they advanced in many cases to coveted Post-Captain rank were denied the opportunity of greater commands and [...]
Crimean War: Britain's Danube Mouth Raid of 1854 The war fought by Britain, France, Turkey and Piedmont in 1854-56 is normally referred to as the “Crimean War” since it was in the Crimea, on the northern shores of the Black Sea, where most of the combat took place. The Allied forces concentrated on besieging [...]
