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Duty and Daring in the Heyday of Empire
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Friday, 4 November 2016
SMS Iltis – a gunboat, a pope and a confrontation in the Pacific
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In the first two decades of the new German Empire, after its proclamation in 1870, and before Germany embarked on construction of the world...
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Tuesday, 1 November 2016
Captain Trollope and the Carronades – Part 1: HMS Rainbow
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Carronade on slide mounting Carronades – large-calibre, short-range cannon throwing very heavy shot – were a game-changing weapon when ...
Friday, 28 October 2016
HMS Nymphe versus Cléopâtre 1793
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Guest Blog by Geri Walton Geri Walton It is my pleasure to host historian Geri Walton on my blog today. Geri is a specialist on the l...
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Tuesday, 25 October 2016
Prize Money - Frigates, Treasure and Jane Austen
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HMS Pomone - frigate, archetypal prize taker In naval fiction set in the Age of Fighting Sail, prize money, accruing from the capture ...
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Friday, 21 October 2016
The salvaging and afterlife of minelayer UC-5
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A blog on Tuesday 3 November 2015 described the horrific sinking of the hospital ship Anglia close to English south-coast in 1915. She was...
Friday, 14 October 2016
Guest Blog by Richard Abbott: South-West England’s Gigs
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I’m honoured today to welcome back the novelist Richard Abbott as a guest blogger. You can out more about him at the end of this article. W...
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