Iéna and Liberté Disasters, 1907 and 1911
The Iéna and Liberté Disasters, 1907 and 1911 In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries all major navies, other than the German, lost large ships [...]
HMS Dolphin vs. slaver Firme, 1841
HMS Dolphin and the capture of the slaver Firme, 1841 A slaver of the early 19th Century - [...]
Crimean War’s North Pacific – Petropavlovsk 1854
The Crimean War’s North Pacific Theatre: Petropavlovsk, August 1854 The most common image of the Crimean War (1854 – 56) is of Britain’s Light Brigade charging [...]
Junk Keying, 1846
The Intercontinental Junk Keying, 1846 In a 1912 book entitled “The Sea Trader – His Friends and Enemies” I came across the engraving illustrated here. I found it wholly fascinating as [...]
Prize Money: Frigates, Snobbery – and Jane Austen
Prize Money: Frigates, Snobbery - and Jane Austen HMS Pomone - frigate, archetypal prize taker In naval fiction set in the Age of Fighting Sail, prize money, [...]
Yet More Privateer Action in the Channel: 1799
More Privateer Action in the Channel: 1799 An earlier article (Click here if you missed it) told of a small vicious action between a British merchant [...]