Launching Ships
When Queen Elizabeth II launched her namesake, the Royal Navy’s latest aircraft carrier, last year, she smashed a bottle of whisky...
The Battle of the Nile
At the end of 1942, the Allies won three victories in three different theatres. In the Pacific the US Navy turned back the remorseless...
Black Tars
In the heart of London is Trafalgar Square, where the figure of Nelson stands on top of his column and gazes out over the city’s traffic...
“What, are there two of them?”
In 1757 the Cornish Pellew family celebrated the birth of their second son, Edward. The following year his younger brother Israel was...
Grog
The Royal Navy has long been associated with the consumption of rum, the drink produced from sugarcane in the islands of the Caribbean....
