I bought a miniature of Lieutenant John Huey RN who reportedly died of his wounds received at Trafalgar. Portrait attached. Having gone down the usual research routes, and different spelling of name, ...

Does anybody know where I can find good translations of the poems of Gorch Fock, aka Johann Kinau, who served on the SMS Wiesbaden during the Battle of Jutland. I am particularly interested in his ...

We may think of globalism as a recent development but its origins date back to the fifteenth century and beyond, when seafarers pioneered routes across the oceans with the objectives of exploration, ...

There is no trace of a John Huey in the comprehensive lists of those who were present at the battle = ...

There is a great deal of detailed information about the practicalities of hoisting screws and other seamanlike evolutions aboard British steam-and-sail battleships in the 1870s and 1880s in the ...

I’m afraid I can find no records of a John Huey being commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, in fact there is no record of a John Huey at all before the start of the 20C. THere is nothing in ...

The SHE-SEES exhibition, hosted in partnership with the Lloyds Register Foundation, Portsmouth Historic Quarter and the University of Portsmouth, taps into archive materials from across the UK and ...

Also it’s not a lieutenant’s uniform of 1805; they didn’t have epaulettes. This is the undress uniform of a captain with more than three years’ post. There is one C19 Lt John Huey; he passed his ...

The Wellington Trust Board of Trustees announced on 3 September that HM the King has approved the name change from HQS Wellington to HMS Wellington (1934). HMS Wellington is the Grimsby class sloop ...

This etching by the mezzotint engraver Thomas Barlow (1824-1889) is based on a cartoon by the eighteenth-century caricaturists Samuel Collings. It shows a press gang at work in the shadow of the Tower ...