MY INTEREST IN The Battle of the Atlantic runs deep. You see, both my grandfather and my father served in the Royal Navy during wartime. During WW1, my grandfather, then a Chief Petty Officer, was a master gunner aboard the iconic battleship, HMS Dreadnought. HMS Dreadnought A couple of decades later, in WW2, my father …
‘Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid & heartbreaking descriptions, have made me realise war like your letters.’ Vera Brittain, writing to Roland Leighton, her future fiancée, on 17 April, 1915 In his remarkable book ‘On Writing - A Memoir of the Craft,’ author Stephen King states: ‘If you want to be a writer, …
On February 10, 1906, the Royal Navy launched its latest warship out of the H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth. The vessel, the first capital ship to be powered by steam turbines, represented such a momentous development in naval technology that its commissioning in December of that year spawned an entire generation of battleships, the classification for which …
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