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This is the second episode in our Lusitania Disaster Special in which we explore the sinking of the Lusitania by a German U-Boat in May 1915, which ended in the death of over 1900 people. In this ...

The Naval Academy at Portsmouth was established in 1733. During its 104 years of operation it developed a poor reputation; Lord St. Vincent called it a “sink of vice and abomination…” Closed in 1833, ...

RINA have unfortunately cancelled their Historic Ships conference and have only recently informed our Honorary Secretary, so he has carefully melded pre-existing plans and resolved the challenges to ...

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 1920, in the Cammell, Laird & Co. shipyard in Birkenhead, a ship was built that would change the shipbuilding industry and shipyards forever. ss Fullagar was the world’s first fully welded ...

This coloured line engraving of a First Rate ship is by the military engineer, Thomas Phillips (d.1693). Phillips was a man of significant reputation in the last quarter of the seventeenth century.

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 ...

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A detailed history of the Royal Dockyard at Portsmouth which included the first gated “dry” dock in England, intended to handle the largest ships of the day and meant to supersede the “wet’ docks then ...

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The Seven Years’ War (1756-1757) had begun badly for the British with a series of defeats, miscarried plans, reversal of alliances and an invasion scare. There was lack of military success in America ...