BOOK REVIEW | A Voyage to New Holland and Round the World
By Captain James Colnett RN This is a wonderful and enjoyable little book. It comprises a very well up-dated and annotated journal of a voyage from...
By Captain James Colnett RN This is a wonderful and enjoyable little book. It comprises a very well up-dated and annotated journal of a voyage from...
These days, when corruption has gone inter-continental and there is so much money laundering, you don’t wonder why the banknotes are dirty, I sometimes...
From the early 17th to the mid 18th century the Dutch maintained a post on the Chao Phraya River near the ancient Thai capital of Ayutthaya. Today little...
Dredging is a strange business. Dredgers aren’t seen as things of beauty and all the action takes place underwater so there’s not much to see. On harbour...
[caption id="attachment_68854" align="alignnone" width=""]Diego Garcia[/caption]At the end of last month, the African archipelago nation of Mauritius...
I don’t know how they cope these days with all the electronic equipment, which keeps ship systems together, having to be updated or even replaced, every...
By Ingo Bauernfeind The battleship era was quite short. It commenced in 1906 when the Royal Navy launched its first "Dreadnought" and was effectively...
[caption id="attachment_68609" align="alignnone" width=""]Maersk Honam[/caption]Well, there’s a turn up for the books. Sixty years after the first containers...
[caption id="attachment_68605" align="alignnone" width=""]HMS Investigator[/caption]On January 25, archaeologists announced that the body of Matthew...
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