During the Crimean war the British Navy was augmented to an unparalelled extent. It was discovered that the unwieldy line-of-battle ships and frigates of large dimensions were utterly unsuited to ...

The British reaction had been tepid at first ... It is one of the great virtues of N.A.M. Rodger’s majestic three-decker ‘naval history of Britain’, as he calls it, that he gives himself room to ...

Omitting some of the book’s most grim moments, the 1953 film is a documentary-style account of life on a British Royal Navy warship during World War 2. The focus is from the viewpoint of British ...

On October 13, 1775, the Continental Congress established a naval force, hoping that a small fleet of privateers could attack British commerce and offset British sea power. Get up-to-date Navy ...

their provenance and place in British naval history." Sir Richard Hissey Bickerton was born in Southampton and joined the navy aged 12. He rose through the ranks before serving with Lord Nelson ...

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – On March 10, 1783, the last naval battle of the American Revolution was fought off Cape Canaveral, as Captains John Barry and John Green tried to deliver a shipload of ...