Thomas Earnshaw and the Marine Chronometer
The story of the quest to find a way of calculating longitude at sea is well known, thanks largely to Dava Sobel’s excellent book...
The Battle of Sinop and the End of Oak
In 1853 most of the world’s warships were still made from wood and powered by sail. The ships of the line that had dominated the great...
A City called Pompey
Portsmouth is on England’s southern coast and has long been the home of the Royal Navy. Known by the nickname Pompey, its special...
