19th Century
The Continental System
One of the Corsican Corporal’s big things was what was known as the Continental System. This was him forcing all the countries he controlled and as many others as possible not to do business with [more…]
Royal Navy
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Twenty-Three
Monday Good morning, my friends, and a Happy Easter Monday to you all. I hope you have had a load of chocolate eggs. It is a beautiful, sunny morning here in London, with not a [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Twenty-Two
Monday Good morning, my friends. It was sunny and a little warmer when I went out this morning. Yesterday, I popped into the office to see if the Sunday crew were slacking with no Legohead [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Twenty-One
Monday Good morning, my friends. It’s quite nice out this morning, with high cloud and watery sunshine. The forecast says the really good weather has gone for a bit. What a pity, I was enjoying [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Twenty
Monday Good morning, my friends. No sun this morning and not terribly warm, but the man on the radio says it is going to get quite warm midweek. It has been quite mad in No. [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Nineteen
Monday Good morning, my friends. It was a bit misty when I ventured out this morning, not cold or wet, but not very nice. Still, it wasn’t raining, and it was a bowl of Felix [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Eighteen
Monday Good morning, my friends. It was sunny and fairly warm this morning when I popped out. Not a good weekend, as Legohead was around and held a couple of press conferences where he was [more…]
Engineering
Plain Sailing towards a Future Navy?
Although the present crisis in the Gulf has provoked both mockery and concern at the thinness of the Navy, a lump came to the throat all the same when seeing HMS Dragon finally leave Portsmouth [more…]
21st Century
Shipshape or All at Sea?
Last Saturday’s article, I See No Ships, proved to be prescient as, while the ink dried on the 28th February piece, Israel and America began their attack on Iran. In retaliation, drone and missile attacks [more…]