February 2020
HMS Nautilus, 1807 Part 2
Hell and High Water: HMS Nautilus, 1807 Part 2 At the end of Part 1 of this article (Click here to read it if you missed it) [...]
Hell and High Water: HMS Nautilus, 1807 – Part 1
Hell and High Water: HMS Nautilus, 1807 Part 1 In November 1806 a Royal Navy squadron commanded by Admiral Sir John Duckworth (1748 – 1817) was sent [...]
Guest Blog by Chris Durbin
Guest Blog by Chris Durbin Author of the Carlisle and Holbrooke series Introduction by Antoine Vanner: As author Chris Durbin tells in the introduction to the article he [...]
Slave Trade Suppression 1847
Hazards of suppressing the Slave Trade, 1847 Britain’s abolition of her slave trade in 1807 is one of the most admirable actions in her history, making it [...]
January 2020
Chesapeake – Leopard Incident, 1807
The Chesapeake – Leopard Incident, 1807 The three-year “War of 1812“between Britain and the United States, brought no great benefit to either nation. Though the issues involved [...]
Wreck of HMS Namur, 1749
A survivor’s account - the loss of HMS Namur, 1749 Two conflicts – the War of Jenkin’s Ear and the War of Austrian Succession - merged into [...]