August 2020
First Blood at Sea, 1914: HMS Amphion & SMS Königin Luise
First Blood 1914: HMS Amphion and SMS Königin Luise On 4th August 1914 Germany rejected the British ultimatum to withdraw from neutral Belgium, which had been invaded in the preceding [...]
Wreck of the Rothsay Castle 1831
The Wreck of the Rothsay Castle 1831 A number of articles on this blog site have dealt with 19th Century shipping disasters. There is a horrible [...]
July 2020
HMS Espoir and Liguria 1798
Duel: HMS Espoir and the Liguria 1798 The Mediterranean was a very active theatre of naval warfare in 1798, culminating in Nelson’s spectacular destruction of the [...]
RN Mobilisation 1914
The Royal Navy 29th July 1914: “Eighteen miles of warships running- at high speed and in absolute blackness through the narrow straits” This blog is published [...]
Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign – by Tom Williams
Guest Blog: Napoleon in Egypt Introduction by Antoine Vanner One of the great pleasure I found after I published my first novel was meeting other writers [...]
Loss of the liner La Bourgogne, 1898
The loss of the liner La Bourgogne, 1898 The sinking of the Titanic in 1912 remains locked in the public imagination as the supreme tragedy of North Atlantic passenger travel, [...]