Privateer Action in the English Channel: 1793 Probably like many others I have always thought of privateers in the Age of Fighting Sail [...]

The Loss of the Russian cruiser Pallada, October 1914 The illustration below  is from a German WW1 part-work, published monthly, in this case in 1914/15. It is [...]

HMS Warrior: Britain’s first ironclad, today restored HMS Warrior, located today at the Portsmouth, United Kingdom was the Royal Navy’s first ironclad, revolutionary when launched in [...]

Hell and High Water: HMS Nautilus, 1807 Part 2 At the end of Part 1 of this article (Click here to read it if you missed [...]

Hell and High Water: HMS Nautilus, 1807 Part 1 In November 1806 a Royal Navy squadron commanded by Admiral Sir John Duckworth (1748 – 1817) was [...]

Guest Blog by Chris Durbin Author of the Carlisle and Holbrooke series Introduction by Antoine Vanner: As author Chris Durbin tells in the introduction to the article [...]