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Duty and Daring in the Heyday of Empire
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Friday, 26 September 2014
Opening the Suez Canal – and Death in the Ice
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HMS Newport and HMS Pandora 1860s- 1914 Anybody interested in the Royal Navy of the Victorian era cannot but be fascinated by the s...
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Friday, 19 September 2014
So much in one life! Sir George Nares – Sailor, Explorer and Oceanographer
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Nares in Arctic clothing With acknowledgement to the National Portrait Gallery My blog last week introduced us to Sir George Nares, a R...
Friday, 12 September 2014
The loss of HMS Queen Charlotte, 1800
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During the twentieth century, damage-control was to become a naval discipline in itself, and was to result in many epics of courage. In ear...
Friday, 5 September 2014
The loss of HMS Royal George 1782
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The disaster that overcame the line-of battle ship HMS Royal George in 1782, while anchored in calm water in sight of shore, was to have a...
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Friday, 29 August 2014
A Marooning Scandal in the Royal Navy, 1807
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One tends to think of “marooning” – abandoning a seaman alone on an uninhabited island – as being a punishment associated with buccaneers a...
Tuesday, 26 August 2014
Imperial German Colonial Aspirations, 1902
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The worldwide German colonial presence in 1914 was to be wiped out – and essentially forgotten – in the years following the Great War. ...
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