October 2020
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
A British cruiser 2000 miles up the Amazon: HMS Pelorus 1909 As a prisoner on HMS Bellerophon, prior to his exile on St. Helena, Napoleon told [...]
September 2020
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, [...]
Armada Underdogs? Guest Blog by J.D. Davies
Guest Blog by J.D. Davies One of the pleasures for me of having embarked on historical naval fiction has been meeting so many interesting people who [...]