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
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 Power and the Glory; Royal Navy Fleet Reviews From Earliest Times To 2005 In November 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that he wants
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,
The Power and the Glory; Royal Navy Fleet Reviews From Earliest Times To 2005 In November 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that he wants
A TALE OF TWO MAYAS Since the start of the pandemic ‘lockdown’ and the subsequent passing of my wife and partner in publishing, I have
While we socially isolate, we might spare a thought for seafarers battling the main diseases that often reached epidemic proportions among ships’ crews in the
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