The Ramming of HMS Prince George by HMS Hannibal, 1903 For some five decades from 1866, when the naval battle of Lissa, when victory was secured by the Austro-Hungarian fleet [...]

Life at sea in the Royal Navy, late 1860s               Scott, 1903 I’ve recently been dipping again into the memoirs [...]

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 [...]

Pellew and the Dutton - rescue despite the odds            Edward Pellew We’ve met Edward Pellew (1757 – 1833) on this blog [...]

Hell at Sea Merchant Service in the mid-19th Century It is impossible to see images of the great clippers and other large vessels under sail in [...]

HMS Thunderer 1879: the end of muzzle-loaders in the Royal Navy Three ships of the Royal Navy in the 1870s, HMS Devastation, her close sister HMS Thunderer and her slightly larger sister HMS Dreadnought, can [...]