HMS Pulteney and the Spanish Xebecs, 1743 There have been many blogs on this site dealing with actions in the Age of Fighting Sail that involved [...]

Gunboat Diplomacy: Franco-Siamese War of 1893 French gunboat Lutin – unarmoured, weakly armed, but very effective when needed!    Jules Ferry and his    ludicrous facial hair [...]

The Year's Blogs: 12 of the best from 2020 2020 saw sustained activities on the Antoine Vanner Writing-Front, Covid-19 notwithstanding. The ninth book of the Dawlish [...]

The 9th Dawlish Chronicle is now available – details at end of article Christmas Day 1914: The Cuxhaven Raid On Christmas Day 1914 three Royal Navy seaplane carriers, Engadine, [...]

The loss of HMS Doterel: Disaster off Punta Arenas 1881 Chile’s Punta Arenas, on the Brunswick Peninsula, to the northern side of the Strait of Magellan, is probably [...]

The Princess Alice Disaster, 1878 Though it is now largely forgotten, one of  Britain's worst maritime catastrophes occurred  on the River Thames in 1878 , just downriver from [...]