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May 30, 2009
HMS Bonne Citoyenne vs. La Furieuse
On June 18, 1809 HMS Inflexible (64) and HMS Bonne Citoyenne (20) departed Spithead for Quebec escorting a convoy of merchantmen.
Bonne Citoyenne was a sloop which had been taken from the French by HMS Phaeton in 1796. She carried eighteen 32-pound carronades, two long nines as bow chasers, and had a crew of 120 officers [...]
May 23, 2009
The Richard Delancey Novels
Having found myself temporarily deprived of Dewey Lambdin’s Alan Lewrie novels and totally dissatisfied with Julian Stockwin’s Thomas Kydd novels (despite the slamming cover art by Geoff Hunt) I’ve been searching for other naval fiction to use as a focal point for the historical features on this blog.
As I mentioned, I’ve rediscovered Dudley Pope’s Nicholas [...]
May 7, 2009
A Quick Bleg From the Management
Admittedly, we write this blog for our own amusement. Having said that, your feedback is welcome and encouraged. If you arrived at this site with a search like “Captain William Essington” or “carronade” or “h m s blanche 1795″ drop us a line and let us know whether or not the information was useful.
If there [...]
February 2, 2009
Characters and Ships From Jester’s Fortune
The list of ships, characters, and cultural references from Dewey Lambdin’s Alan Lewrie novel, Jester’s Fortune is available at scribd.com.
January 28, 2009
Ferrol
Ferrol, Galicia, has been linked to the sea for its entire history. The remnants of the Spanish Armada took shelter here and it remains the major Spanish naval base on the Atlantic coast.
Ferrol, of course, is also well known to fans of C. S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower novels. The fortress at Ferrol, in the foreground, [...]
January 1, 2009
Academics, is there anything they don’t know?
I understand the publish-or-perish mentality in academia. It is unfortunate because it causes mostly lucid and rational people to produce stuff like this:
To date, most interpretations regarding the agency of maritime workers in the late eighteenth century have posited the seamen as a united working-class body. However, the application of gender as a mode of [...]
December 24, 2008
“From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues”
The Isles of Scilly are the northernmost boundary of the Western Approaches of the English Channel. During the Age of Sail the overwhelming majority of British and Continental shipping exited the English Channel using the southern landmark, Ushant, as the point of departure for destinations in the West Indies, the Americas, and the Far East.
Both [...]
