Life at sea in the Royal Navy, late 1860s Scott, 1903 I’ve recently been dipping again into the memoirs of Admiral Sir Percy Scott (1853 -1924), one of the key figures in the modernisation of the Royal Navy in the late 19th and early 20th Century. Scott transformed the [...]
The Princess Alice Disaster, 1878 Though it is now largely forgotten, one of Britain’s worst maritime catastrophes occurred on the River Thames in 1878 , just downriver from London when the excursion steamer Princess Alice was sunk in a collision. It is strange that some disasters, such as the loss of the Titanic in 1912, live on in the popular memory [...]
