FOR KING AND COUNTRY (but especially for King). It was sad to see that old chestnut trotted out again on page 17 of the September 1996 issue of the Naval ...
Garden Island Rock Carvings – The Forgotten Men
In The Beginning – The Naval Historical Society of Australia
Not the Dockyard Please
HMS Driver – First Paddlewheel Ship to Circumnavigate the World
HMS DRIVER, a 180 foot paddlewheel sloop, was the first steam vessel to circumnavigate the world. The voyage took five years and commenced from Portsmouth in 1842. Her record, despite ...