Dawlish Chronicles

RMS Cedric  - a giant in 1901 One of the more attractive aspects of the Victorian Age was the willingness to take on large and often un...

In reading about the classic Age of Fighting Sail – roughly 1700 to 1830 – one is struck by the fact that encounters between the British an...

It has been very noticeable over the last year that though commemoration of the First World War opened with a fanfare – and in Britain at l...

The war fought by Britain, France, Turkey and Piedmont in 1854-56 is normally referred to as the “Crimean War” since it was in the Crimea, ...

The name Wasp is one of the oldest and most illustrious names given to ships in the United States Navy. The earliest,  a schooner purchased...

Like everybody who writes novels I’m frequently asked “Where do you get the ideas from?” There’s no easy answer and I suspect that th...