Philip K Allanさんのイラストまとめ

He heard a double thump, as if a train wagon was being shunted in a nearby goods yard. Moments later came the faintest of whines.
Ward ripped open the door and yelled towards Cole. ‘Torpedoes! Bearing red seventy, sir!’

Sea of Wolves – Published September 15th

#WW2 #amreading

“Below the waves the long grey hull hung, her own propellers turning lazily, so that she barely moved through the gloom. Fish, inquisitive to explore this new arrival, darted and turned around the conning tower”
Out Sept 15th
Advance order https://t.co/0shnbB79V6
#WW2 #histfic

My new book is available for advance order NOW https://t.co/0shnbB79V6

Set in WW2 during the Battle of the Atlantic, 3 stories twist around each other , one on a U-boat, one on an convoy escort and a lady codebreaker.

Published 15th September

#WW2 #GreyhoundMovie #amreading

The Bombardment of Algiers by George Hyde Chamber. In 1816 Sir Edward Pellew, then an admiral, was sent in command of an Anglo-Dutch fleet to “persuade” the Dey of Algiers to stop slave trading. It would be Pellew’s final battle.

#Pellew #RoyalNavy #Ageofsail

French frigate Cannoniere by Pierre-Julien Gilbert

In 1806 she found herself hopelessly outgunned by the 74-gun HMS Tremendous in the Indian Ocean. Her captain used his ship’s manoeuvrability to damage the much larger British ship aloft to escape

#RoyalNavy #FrenchNavy #SEA

HMS Hermione being cut out of Puerto Cabello by boats from HMS Surprise
Hermione’s crew had mutinied against the sadistic Captain Pigot, and had sold the captured ship to the Spanish.

Painting by Nicholas Pocock

#Mutiny #Hemione #RoyalNavy

French corvette Bayonnaise rams and then boards HMS Ambuscade. Outgunned and facing defeat, this bold move resulted in a French victory. Painting by French artist Jean Francois Hue

#Sea #Frenchnavy #RoyalNavy

Jack Ashore – a sanitised view of how Royal Navy sailors spent their time in port from the 1790s.

#Sea #Sailors #RoyalNavy

My latest blog tells the story of how a French warship, protected by shore batteries in a bay surrounded by rocky islands was captured by a daring night attack.

Find it at https://t.co/JiGlKw7FVP

#CuttingOut #RoyalNavy #ageofsail

“The defeat of the Spanish Armada” by Philiippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg. Painted two centuries after the Battle of Gravelines that it depicts, it is over dramatic - but I do still like it.

#SpanishArmada #Tudornavy #maritime