Antoine Vannerさんのイラストまとめ

Naval-fiction author Alaric Bond reflects on the challenges of introducing real-life personalities in his writing, especially the extravagant and actual Royal Navy maverick Home Riggs Popham. Click: https://t.co/cQprdofHME #NauticalFiction #Napoleonic #HistoricalFiction

The British fifth-rate HMS Resistance came to a spectacular end and with high loss of life, off Sumatra in 1798, but not by enemy action. The few survivors showed courage & resourcefulness Click: https://t.co/3DgKRWiBBq #Napoleonic #History #Navy

The British fifth-rate HMS Resistance came to a spectacular end and with high loss of life, off Sumatra in 1798, but not by enemy action. The few survivors showed courage & resourcefulness Click: https://t.co/3DgKRWiBBq #Napoleonic #History #Navy

Few warships have sailed under the flags of four different nations & seen action each time in just 8 years. This was the distinction of a small French privateer, original built as a polacca, which was to win fame as the brig HMS Transfer in 1799. Click: https://t.co/1GIwnPHcd6

A dark, stormy March night in 1891 saw a scene of horror in the harbour at #Gibraltar when a passenger steamer loaded with Italian emigrants collided with the pointed ram of HMS Anson. This forgotten tragedy claimed 562 lives in sight of shore. Click https://t.co/eT6hBDdW48

As late as the mid-nineteenth century merchant shipping was still being captured by Barbary pirates off the Riff coast of Morocco. Daring rescue and retaliation efforts by the Royal Navy in 1848 and 1851 depended on use of paddle sloops. Click: https://t.co/eC7tNqpc8N #Navy

“Cutting-out” was a desperate class of operation in which the Royal Navy acquired vast proficiency in the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Wars period. Here’s a classic example, HMS Emerald in 1808. Click https://t.co/rhGzsGVh2G #history #navy

1797 Desperate battle in storm and darkness as frigate HMS Indefatigable takes on “74” Droits de l’Homme. Click: https://t.co/jJdPqwVmsN

1796: the spectacular loss of frigate HMS Amphion nearly brought an illustrious career to a premature end. Click: https://t.co/Zftps7GbNQ

1758: A British naval captain, his honour besmirched, was determined to clear his name in an unequal contest. Blog: https://t.co/lS56u0WVDh