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Having chosen a George Cruikshank illustration in my last blog, here is another one, dating from 1819 and entitled ‘Landing the Treasures, or Results of the Polar Expedition!!!’ The background to it was the fact that in the 19th...
Image courtesy of the Royal Museums, Greenwich. Today I am delighted to offer a guest post to freelance writer Lucy Lawrence. She has many years experience across a variety of sectors, having made the move to freelancing from a stressful corporate job...
Of all the pirates in the so-called ‘Golden Age’ none typified the image of the swash-buckling buccaneer better than Edward Teach – the man known to history as ‘Blackbeard’. Much of what we know about his exploits comes...
The diary entry of my ancestor Richard Hall, for March 1800, reads: “The Queen Charlotte Man of War took fire and blew up – it is feared not less than 700 lives are lost.” It was typical of many such diary entries of my ancestor, who...
A week after the naval victory over the French at Quiberon Bay, Richard noted the “Day of General Thanksgiving, observed for the great and plentiful harvest, and the train of successes the Lord has been pleased this year to give us over our Enemies...
Time to dust off a blog I did a year ago commemorating the death of a remarkable Frenchman:Every so often, I have a complete mental aberration and decide to write something nice about a Frenchman. What has prompted it this time? Looking out the window...
Every so often, I have a complete mental aberration and decide to write something nice about a Frenchman. What has prompted it this time? Looking out the window at the magnificent bougainvillea which has spread across the head of the steps leading from...
As daylight broke on 7th May 1765 there were scenes of frantic activity down at the docks at Chatham Dockyard: men with adzes were frantically hacking chunks of wood off the gate-posts at the entrance of the dry dock where a ship was waiting to be launched....
I am delighted to have a guest blog today from the irrepressible Elizabeth Hopkinson, author of a just-released novel Silver Hands which contains lots of detailed background information about trade with the Far East in the 17th and 18th Centuries....
Writing in his notebook about extreme weather conditions, Richard Hall notes:
The Terrible, launched in Harwich in 1762, was the fourth of that name (if you include vessels captured from the Spanish and the French, and then re-named). It doesn’t...
Writing in his note-book of extreme weather conditions my ancestor Richard comments:
In late November 1790 HMS Elephant narrowly avoided total destruction when lightning struck her whilst she was in Portsmouth harbour. The main topmast exploded but...
The diary entry of my ancestor Richard Hall, for March 1800.
The destruction by fire of the British warship HMS Queen Charlotte on 17 March 1800 was one of the most disastrous...
On 1st August 1797 the ship Lady Shore was some four days off the coast of Brazil. The ship had been built for the East India trade, and had gained its name after Lady Charlotte Shore, wife of Sir John Shore, who was Governor General of India at the...