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Captain James Fitzjames, second in command of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, was a key figure in 19th century naval history. This talk explores his roles and highlights primary sources that reveal a ...

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In 1628 the Dutch and Spanish had already been at war, with the occasional truce, for sixty years. What initially had begun as a war for Dutch independence in northern Europe had by this stage spilled ...

In 1688 Prince William of Orange and his wife, Mary (James’ daughter) invaded England and seized the crown. England became protestant. The Battle of La Hogue in 1692 was the result of the French ...

At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936, Portugal was already monitoring the political situation in Spain very closely since left-leaning Republican governments were seen to pose a major ...

The HMS prefix certainly starts to come into use around the late 18th Century, but it wasn’t formalized until about 1820. In the 16/1718C HMS was used only as a prefix to honour the king, all RN ...

I would suggest that it would depend on the length of the voyage, but a typical merchant brig of the period would probably have a crew of 15 – 20 men “The average crew at the same time (mid-1770s)was ...

‘A correct view of the French Flat-Bottom Boats intended to convey their troops for the invasion of England, as seen afloat in Charante Bay in August 1803 – these flat bottom boats are about 120 feet ...

I’m trying to find out when davits were first used for warships but I’m finding it difficult to get information. I suspect it is around 1810ish. And when they were introduced was it for all warships ...

During the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–4) the fleet of the Dutch Republic was no match for the numerically far greater British navy. Her merchant ships were taken and the navy was forced to protect ...

Great news that the sunken wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s HMS Endurance has at long last been discovered deep in South Antarctica’s Weddell Sea where she has lain for 107 years, and in what an amazing ...