Mr Lee would have us believe that Torrington was not a scapegoat but, by his behaviour at Beachy Head, he was entirely responsible for the outcome. Torrington, Mr Lee suggests was prepared to let the ...

A naval cause celebre, the dispute between Augustus Keppel and Sir Hugh Palliser after the inconclusive battle of Ushant in 1778 led to the courts martial (and acquittals) of both admirals. The causes ...

Compared with other nations, the eighteenth century Royal Navy was markedly slower in adopting new propulsion technology, initially resisting steam in favour of sail and later the screw propeller over ...

During the 1830’s a profitable trade opened up bringing guano fertiliser to the UK from the accumulated bird dropping deposits off the coast of Peru. In 1842 Andrew Livingstone, a retired ...

In November 1295 several English seaport towns were ordered to build galleys to strengthen the fleet for the war with France. A total of twenty galleys were ordered and the resulting accounts for ...

Following a brief history of skin-covered boats, with the earliest records of such vessels in Britain dating from the time of the Romans, Hornell then proceeds to record the differences between the ...

In this episode we explore a part of maritime history that has too often drifted beneath the surface: women who served at sea in the First and Second World Wars, and who died for their service. To ...

Part 7 of a series of articles drawn from the manuscript of the late Sir Oswyn Murray, originally planned as a volume in the Whitehall Series. This Part deals with the organisational structure of the ...