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If you want me to tenuously link it back to the great outdoors, I will…
A year ago I wrote a post on the nautical origins of some of the phrases we use…
A few weeks ago I was invited to a blogging event. I couldn’t say no, partly because the…
HMS Captain capturing the San Nicolas and the San Josef – Source: http://bit.ly/2lcNLT0 By February 1797 the revolutionary war with…
On the 21st of October 1805, the British fleet, under Horatio Nelson’s command, met the combined…
On a sunny evening last week after work, I headed over to Portsmouth Historic…
The topic of today’s post? One of Britain’s most famous ships, the oldest commissioned ship in…
I grew up in South Somerset, with my grandparents living just across the border…
I seem to keep choosing topics that are far too big for one blog post. However,…