April 2021
Captain Trollope and the Carronades – Part 2: HMS Glatton
Captain Trollope and the Carronades – Part 2 Henry Trollope In Part1 of this article (Click here to read it if you missed [...]
Captain Trollope and the Carronades – Part 1
Captain Trollope and the Carronades – Part 1 Carronade on slide mount Carronades – large-calibre, short-range cannon throwing very heavy shot – were a [...]
March 2021
France’s Farfadet Submarine Disaster 1905
France's Farfadet Submarine Disaster 1905 Courage of the highest order was demanded of the officers and men of the navies that first employed submarines in the [...]
February 2021
War at Sea 1917: An Ominous New Year’s Day
War at Sea 1917: An Ominous New Year’s Day 1917 was to mark a turning point not just in World War 1, but in world history, [...]
Merchant Seamen’s families, 1870s
The families left behind by the merchant seamen of the 1870s A separate article, about working conditions in merchant shipping in the 1870s (Click here to read [...]
Unequal Duel, 1758: HMS Monmouth vs. Foudroyant
Unequal Duel, 1758: HMS Monmouth vs. Foudroyant Admiral Byng The execution by firing squad in 1757 [...]