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 (Click here for Part 2) Carronade on slide mount Carronades – large-calibre, short-range cannon throwing very [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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                  Admiral Byng The execution by firing squad in 1757 [...]