June 2019
USS Miantonomoh 1866 – 67
Diplomacy at Sea: USS Miantonomoh 1866 - 67 Two recent blogs described the loss of low-freeboard monitors in the open sea, the Dutch Adder in 1882 (Click here to [...]
US Navy’s Sumatran Expeditions of 1832 & 1838
The US Navy's Sumatran Expeditions of 1832 & 1838 The US Navy’s role in the suppression of Barbary piracy in the Mediterranean is deservedly well known but [...]
French Prisoners Part 2
Lonely Lives and Deaths French Prisoners of War in Britain 1793 - 1815 Part 2 The most notable reminder of the Napoleonic-era French prisoners in modern Alresford [...]
French Prisoners Part 1
Lonely Lives and Deaths French Prisoners of War in Britain 1793 - 1815 Part 1 Though the focus of my own writing – in my novels of [...]
HMS Santa Margarita and L’Amazone Duel 1782
Frigate Duel, 1782: HMS Santa Margarita vs. L’Amazone In reading about warfare in the Age of Fighting Sail one is invariably impressed by the aggression and sheer bloody-minded [...]
SS Strathclyde and SS Franconia 1876
Hit and Run at Sea, 1876 - SS Strathclyde and SS Franconia A recent blog dealt with an 1876 case of a ship “passing by on the [...]