April 2019
Last Fireship Attack? HMS Dart & Désirée 1800
The Last Fireship Attack? HMS Dart & Désirée, 1800 For many centuries fireships were to be some of the most dramatic and devastating of all naval weapons, albeit that they were [...]
HMS Buckingham, 1758
HMS Buckingham in furious action, 1758 The Seven Years War, 1756-63, which often been fairly described as “The First World War” since it was fought on a [...]
The Two Tragedies of the SS Orteric
The Two Tragedies of the SS Orteric The 9th of December 2015 was the 100th anniversary of the torpedoing in the Eastern Mediterranean of the SS Orteric. [...]
Slave ship Phoenix, 1762
The sinking of the slave ship Phoenix, 1762 The horror of the Atlantic slave trade is well exemplified by the loss of the slave ship Phoenix in [...]
HMS Southampton off Toulon 1796
“Bring me out the enemy’s ship if you can…” HMS Southampton off Toulon, 1796 Close blockade of the coasts of French-occupied countries in the Napoleonic era was the [...]
March 2019
SS Chimborazo, 1880
The Survival of the SS Chimborazo, 1880 The second half of the nineteenth century saw steam power at sea come to maturity and, in combination with the [...]