Guest post from author Robert K Liu.
The Pearl Harbor surprise raid by Yamamoto’s Japanese aircraft carriers on the US Pacific Fleet occurred 80 years ago, December 7, 1941 at 8 am. It
Theme: Will History Repeat itself in the Indo-Pacific ?
On 11 October 1805, just ten days before the British and the combined French and Spanish fleets clashed off Cadiz, the Admiralty issued an order
How I came to write about the Azores by Guy Warner
On 1 August 1803, Lieutenant John Quilliam, then fifth lieutenant of Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson’s flagship Victory, recorded in his own lieutenant’s log that ‘left the
Those of us who ponder what would have happened if Napoleon Bonaparte had launched a full-scale invasion of Britain often focus on the land campaign:
Friday April 2nd 2021 is the 220th anniversary of the first Battle of Copenhagen, the final fleet action of the French revolutionary wars of 1792
The starting point for this book was my own experience as a young cadet with P&O in the early 1960s. During bridge watches at night,
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