Category: Royal Navy

Calamity Harbour, a rare account of early exploration of British Columbia

May 28, 2024

I have been enthralled by the age of fighting sail since I was a boy when I read the Hornblower series and later Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin Maturin_series of novels. I am now working on a nonfiction historical investigation, set  during the Georgian era Royal Navy. In a recent online discussion people were complaining how one […]

Captain’s log 1819108

September 11, 2022

  I’ve just completed five days of research for my Pennell Projects at the British National Archives at Kew. (And a couple of weeks earlier I spent the afternoon at the British  Library in London). William Pennell was a diplomat and a spy under diplomatic cover from 1814 to 1832.  That meant I had a […]