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This of ships at harbour entrance by William Calcott is available to buy in the UK on my website https://t.co/wFScLQDvor

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2020-09-18

13 September 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.


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2020-09-13

The 1680s saw the first step in Admiral Charles Wager’s meteoric career. As cabin-boy on an unarmed merchant ship under attack by a French privateer he took control & led her crew to victory. Click: https://t.co/LF0Ngr4Geg

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2020-09-05

Azur Lane - Little Bel✨
Almost finish the full drawing finally. 🌟

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2020-07-14

HMS Guardian struck an iceberg 1400 miles SE of South Africa, en route to Australia in 1789 Unmanageable & abandoned by most of her crew, the ship’s survival chance was minimal. But her young commander was not yet beaten. Click: https://t.co/XCGlqnlJOk

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2020-07-13

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.

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2020-07-10

Waiting for Swiftsure arrival today after maintenance take about 8 hours time.

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2020-05-14

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

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2020-04-23

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

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2020-04-09

RT : Courage, professionalism, leadership and skill of the highest order saved massive loss of life in1804 when a “74” ship-of-the line HMS Venerable, was wrecked in a gale. Credit went to her 67-year old captain. https://t.co/7hQ9EZotcN

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2020-04-05

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

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2020-03-30

From 1779 to 1783 Britain’s epic defence in the “Great Siege of Gibraltar” was one of her few successes in the American War of Independence. Starvation, bombardment, tunnelling, land assault and naval power all played a role. Click https://t.co/RlvUCnmK2w

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2020-03-29

1793: At the start of the Revolutionary War, in the English Channel, savage treatment of the captain of a captured British trader by the crew of a French privateer earned terrible retribution. Click: https://t.co/WxzpXOFYFG

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2020-03-15

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

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2020-03-09

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

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2020-03-02

HMS Bellona, by Geoff Hunt. Launched in 1760, she was a veteran of three wars, and was not broken up until 1814. If this painting is familiar, it was used as the cover for one of 's novels.

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2020-02-20