Nineteen Keys and the Lure of a Furious Sea.

"The sea will grant each man new hope, his sleep brings dreams of home." Christopher Columbus

Monday, 21 September 2009

United States Navy and The Devil's Jaw, September 1924.

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The United States Navy's greatest navigational tragedy took place in September 1923 at an isolated California coastal headland locally k...
Tuesday, 15 September 2009

The Battleship SCHARNHORST

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Scharnhorst was a famous World War II capital ship, the lead of her class, referred to as either a battleship or a battlecruiser of the Germ...
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The Russian Admiral

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Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Sergei Georgievich Gorshkov Called by some the twentieth-century Alfred Thayer Mahan, Admiral of th...
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"Doomed from the Outset!" The sinking of HMS Repulse.

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HMS Repulse was a Renown-class battlecruiser, the second to last battlecruiser built by John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland, for the...
Sunday, 13 September 2009

The sinking of the Pocket Battleship ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE.

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"Bigger than anything faster. Faster than anything bigger." Admiral Graf Spee at the 1937 Fleet Review at Spithead. In the backgr...

Courage Under Fire! Able Seaman Kate Nesbitt, MC.

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A Military Cross has been awarded to 20 year old Able Seaman Kate Nesbitt of the Royal Navy. A 20-year-old medic who repeatedly rushed forwa...
Thursday, 10 September 2009

Bloody Marvellous! A tribute to HMS Exeter (68)

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HMS Exeter (68) was a York class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy that served in World War II. She was laid down on 1 August 1928 at the Dev...
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