Author: Richard Woodman

The Battle of the River Plate was the first major naval confrontation of the Second World War, and it is one of the most famous. The dramatic sea f...

Plunged into depression after a brief, post-war boom, the ships and men of the British merchant navy found themselves called upon to repeat their s...

By the end of the nineteenth century the British Merchant Navy had become the world's largest carrier of people, manufactured goods and raw materia...

The Sea Warriors is the true story of the great frigate captains of the Nelsonic Royal Navy who spent long and arduous years away from their homes ...