#NavalHistory

NAM Rodger says in @LRB that there are “scarcely more than a score” of memoirs by ordinary sailors, in a review of Stephen Taylor’s “Sons of the Waves”, covering 1740-1840.

Chris Sams OBS WB

As promised the link between Kapitanleutnant Schneider, HMS Formidable and Lassie.Today's #Navalhistory thread from #FWW #history https://twitter.com/jerijerod14/status/1387828382516322314 In 1914 HMS Formidable, then part of the 5th Ba

A. Jorge Aguilera López

aguilera__jorge

1/ A thread about galleys, its challenges, the Royal Shipyard of Barcelona and the controversial and interesting viceroy of Catalonia Manrique de Lara during late 1580s. Based on my research.

1. Why we call spies "Ninth Rate" and how we are all helping to "Pay it Forward" by taking on the role of the Repeating Frigate (Shown: French frigate Lutine