The Royal Navy’s strangest ship - HMS Diamond Rock
A mile off the southern coast of Martinique is a steep-sided basalt island that rises almost six hundred feet above the electric-blue waters of the Caribbean. Called Diamond Rock, it is an ancient lava plug left by a long-vanished volcano and is unoccupied by humans. But that was not always the case. The island was once home to over a hundred sailors and marines, when the island became HMS Diamond Rock - officially a sloop in the Royal Navy. In 1803 Commodore Sir Samuel Hood
