January 2019
The Royal Navy’s End of Fighting Sail – Sidon, Beirut and Acre,1840
The Royal Navy's End of Fighting Sail – Sidon, Beirut and Acre, 1840 Though steam propulsion was first applied to warships, on a small scale, in the [...]
Miss Betty Mouat and the Colombine, 1886
Miss Betty Mouat and the Colombine 1886 My blog posts often deal with blood and thunder, conflict and battle, but this present item deals with a middle-aged [...]
HMS Quebec off Nordeney, 1811
HMS Quebec off Nordeney: Small Boat Action 1811 When reading of the Royal Navy’s role in the Napoleonic Wars, one is always struck by the dogged determination [...]
Black Tars – Black sailors in the Royal Navy in the Age of Fighting Sail
I am very pleased today to host a guest blog by another author naval-fiction, Philip K. Allan, who sets his work in the Napoleonic Era. There's a [...]
HMS Flamborough and HMS Bideford, 1760
HMS Flamborough and HMS Bideford, outgunned but defiant, 1760 The term “post ship” was applied in the Royal Navy to Sixth-Rate vessels, and referred to the fact [...]
Penang – Britain’s Early Foothold in South-East Asia
Penang– Britain's Early Foothold in South-East Asia Some three years ago I was visiting Malaysia, arriving via Penang, the island off Peninsular Malaysia’s west coast that’s now [...]