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My "Writing the History of the Royal Navy, 1945-2020" is out with IJMH (link in next text), surveying interesting new work by Ed Hampshire and Peter Hore, and covering mistakes in existing work such as the Official History of the Falklands Campaign, and where gaps remain. 1/2
Please check out this *fascinating* programme for next week. I'm really looking forward to attending online as much as I can. There are some really neat talks that are going to be there, and lots of friends of @globalmarhist.bsky.social like Meaghan Walker and Seth LeJacq
A Letter to Her Younger Self
Sonali Banerjee broke new ground as India’s first female marine engineer, rising to Chief Engineer before forging a second career as a leading maritime surveyor.
It says an enormous amount about the Royal Navy in the late Victorian period that they could essentially build HMS "Fuck That One Ship In Particular" as and when required.
Picture of the Lough Swilly fish weir, recorded in the spring of 2013. Picture by Paul Montgomery.
Late medieval/ post-medieval stone #fishweir in #Loughswilly, #Donegal, #Ireland. Discovered in 2013 and recovered as an archaeological monument. Built with 3 layers of rough stone that were about a meter in height. 1/4 #coastalhistory #4oceans
New on the GHIL blog by former scholarship holder Michelle Watzig (Universität Heidelberg): ‘“Industrious” Chinese and British “Scoundrels”: Stereotypes of Asian and British Seamen in the 1908 Issues of The Seaman’ explores how racist stereotypes made the declining status and precariousness
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Navigating in the 17th and early 18th centuries was a tricky business.
#maritimehistory #17thc #c18th
Royal Navy submarine HMS Splendid. Imperial War Museum image: FL 3647. Description: a starboard side view of a surfaced submarine under way off a low coastline. Several large vessels can be seen in the background.
21 Apr 1943 // Submarine HMS Splendid was scuttled off Capri to prevent her falling into enemy hands after a depth-charge attack by German destroyer Hermes forced her to the surface. 18 of her crew were lost and 27 were taken prisoner. (Imperial War Museum FL 3647) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
21 Apr 1942 // HM Trawler Jade was sunk in Grand Harbour, Malta, during an air raid. No lives were lost. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
21 Apr 1822 // 18-gun brig sloop HMS Confiance was patrolling between Cork and Kinsale with HMS Gannet when the two became separated in bad weather. The Confiance was not seen again. Wreckage and bodies were found along the coast on the following day, but no survivors. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
21 Apr 1783 // 32-gun 5th-rate HMS Cerberus was taking part in the blockade of the Chesapeake when her captain fell ill. The ship disembarked him in Bermuda and was just leaving Castle Harbour to return to station when she struck a submerged reef. She could not be freed and began to flood. [1/2]
Currently #Reading!: A Poisoned Chalice, The U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf, 1987–1988 by Stephen Phillips.
I usually don't jump books, but I grabbed this today and figured it'd be a good thing to get stuck into given everything going on around us today #booksky #nonfiction #histbookchat
Much respect for everything you do 😊
My latest article is out. It argues that sea control has been reimagined in recent years, driven by a dramatic change in the value that states place upon the seas. This in turn is impacting navies across the globe.
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Front right aerial view of the Boeing XPBB-1 Sea Ranger, painted overall in dark grey or blue except for the lower hull. It’s flying at low altitude over what appears to be an airfield under construction, Summer 1943. It’s a large twin-radial engined flying boat with a deep hull and two stabilising floats fixed below the outer wings. There are nose, dorsal and tail gun turrets as well as waist blisters.
The Boeing XPBB-1 Sea Ranger (1942) was a long range patrol bomber, the largest twin-engined aircraft in the world at the time of its first flight. It was developed to meet the threat posed by German and Japanese submarines or surface raiders in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
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Had a great time at #Houston Fleet Week representing NHHC and discussing our mission with visitors. I am also excited to be sleeping in my own bed tonight #Naval #History
HMS Powerful in 1897. She had her funnels raised to improve draft. Introduced the four funnel and two-storey casemates among British cruisers which was followed in the next several classes.
Powerful and Terrible (1895) were 14,000 ton protected cruisers designed to hunt down and destroy the Rurik, a Russian armored cruiser designed as a commerce raider. Designed for a speed of 22 knots, and long range, each ship carried two 9.2 inch and twelve 6" guns.
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HMS Furious, an Arrogant class protected cruiser. Designed as "Fleet Rams" the Arrogant, Furious, Gladiator and Vindictive were completed between 1898 and 1900. Vindictive was used to attack Zeebruge in April 1918 and expended as a blockship at Ostend in May 1918.
The four Arrogant class protected cruisers were designed to sink enemy ships crippled in action by ramming. To perfom their task they were given reinforced bows, a fuller hull form for a smaller turning circle and a heavily armored conning tower.
None of them ever rammed a ship.
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Just before sunrise with an orange glow along the horizon reflected in the sea & dark wet sandy beach
Sonali Banerjee
Sonali Banerjee shattered maritime barriers as India’s first female marine engineer—rising to Chief Engineer and shaping the future of safety and sustainability at sea. Her story is one of skill, resilience and leadership.
Hey! Look!
A maritime history workshop on women and the sea, with online registration open, happening next week!
www.swaan.org/registration
Check out the program!
www.swaan.org/program
#maritimehistory #swaanproject
This is the new episode of Mariner's Mirror Podcast:
Spies in the Shipyard: Espionage and the Rise of Spain’s 18th-Century Navy
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snr.org.uk/the-mariners...
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A unique snapshot that includes four of the gun types on the Austro-Hungarian Empire battleship SMS Radetsky. Pictured 24cm, 30.5cm, 6.6cm, and 10cm guns.
#austria #hungary #radetsky #sms #kuk #ww1 #worldwar1 #navalhistory #history #battleship #warship #ship #navalguns #predreadnought
20 Apr 1941 // HM Trawler Topaze sank south of Cumbrae Island in the Firth of Forth after being rammed just before 1am by the battleship HMS Rodney, en route from the Clyde to Portsmouth. Only two men from Topaze's crew of twenty survived this tragic incident. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
20 Apr 1940 // HM Trawler Rutlandshire, in naval service as an anti-submarine vessel, was damaged by air attack while part of a group of armed trawlers covering French landings at Namsos, Norway. She was grounded and abandoned, and later scrapped. No lives were lost. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
