Guest Blog: The Ambush of SS Persia, 1915
Guest Blog by Alan Wren The Ambush of SS Persia, 1915 Introduction by Antione Vanner: I wrote a blog article some time ago (click here) about [...]
HMS Black Joke engages a slaver, 1831
HMS Black Joke engages a slaver, 1831 Following Britain’s abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807 and end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the Royal Navy [...]
Guest Blog by Penelope Fisher – Lord Fisher
Guest Blog by Penelope Fisher "Sea Lord and Me" Introduction by Antoine Vanner: Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Fisher Copyright R.Fisher I [...]
HMS Pelorus, 2000 miles up the Amazon, 1909
HMS Pelorus 1909: A British cruiser 2000 miles up the Amazon As a prisoner on HMS Bellerophon, prior to his exile on St. Helena, Napoleon told [...]
Nightmare at Sea 1874
Nightmare in the Baltic 1874 Merchant Service in the mid-19th Century Baron Walter Runciman In a recent bog (click here to read it) I drew [...]
Admiral Charles Wager
Admiral Charles Wager’s first step in a meteoric career I dipped some time ago into a magnificently titled 19th Century book called: “THRILLING NARRATIVES OF MUTINY, [...]