Commander Mark Barton BEng, MA, PhD, CEng, FRINA, RNR completed a full career as a naval officer and now has a portfolio career based around his professional fields of naval architecture and naval ...

In Dr Sam Willis’ book “The Fighting Temeraire” he wrote the following on the 1759 Battle of Lagos: “[La Clue] took his ships to a tiny creek in between Lagos and Cape St Vincent that was guarded by ...

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The late John Harland’s great work, ‘Seamanship in the age of Sail’, is the bible for this & much else. He covers the evolution on page 21, and if you do a search on the mariner’s Mirror back ...

(for an ancient reference to these boats, see Hawkins, Clifford W. 1965. “THE TUTICORIN THONI.” The Mariner’s Mirror 51 (2): 147–54. it seems to me that historians could still do a lot about ships ...

Hi all. I am researching HMCSS Victoria (the first ever built for a Colonial Government), designed by Oliver W Lang and built buy Magnay and Sons at Limehouse in 1855. She was a steam screw sloop ...