Maritime History

Chamier was a Royal Navy officer, who like his exact contemporary Captain Marryat is best remembered for a series of naval novels. The Life of a Sa...

World War I is one of the iconic conflicts of the modern era. For many years the war at sea has been largely overlooked; yet, at the outbreak of th...

Original designed in 1934 for anti-submarine training, by the end of the war seventy-two U-Class subs had been commissioned. Seventeen were lost t...

Emma, Lady Hamilton, rose from poverty to become a media celebrity, and her relationship with Admiral Nelson, and her renowned beauty, made her the...

It was an age of evolution, when size and speed were almost the ultimate considerations. Bigger was said to be better and ship owners were not exem...

From the mid-1890s a race was on between the merchant navies of the recently unified Germany, Britain and France. That race was to make the most lu...