Naval History
Battleship Clash at Iron Bottom Sound! Part II
The battleship Washington (BB-56) leading South Dakota (BB-57) while firing at Kirishima on the night of 14-15 November 1942. The Japanese battleship Kirishima takes hit after hit from Washington (BB-56) as the battle reaches its climax. For his part, Kondo was eager to send his two smaller groups to tangle with the Americans, but he was cautious and hesitant with…
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The Roman Naval War with Antiochos Part II
Trihemiolia c. 300 BC The Campaign of 190 BC (Maps J (iii), J (iv) and Note) (L.37.1.10) In the winter of 191–190 both sides prepared for a further campaign on land and sea. Lucius Scipio received Greece as his consular province with his famous brother Publius Scipio Africanus as his…
The Roman Naval War with Antiochos Part III
Actuarius of about 200 BC, Second Punic War, from a bas-relief of the Vatican (late empire). Note the decorative spur. The Battle of Side (L.37.23.6) ‘At first light on the following day each fleet moved out of harbour ready to fight that day; and after the Rhodians had passed the…
The Roman Naval War with Antiochos Part IV
MAP J (iv). The Teos and Myonnesos Promontories. After Admiralty chart 3346 Note on Map J (iv): Teos and Myonnesos play a part in the events leading up to the battle named after the latter. Myonnesos had earlier (191 BC) featured in Polyxenidas’s plan for a surprise attack on the…
PERSEUS OF MACEDON
Under the year 185 BC Livy (39.23.5) mentions the threat of war with Perseus, the son of Philip V of Macedon. He says that the beginnings lay not with Perseus but with his father, who would have waged it if he had lived. Quintus Marcius, sent to Macedon in 183…
Crimean War: Naval Operations in the Pacific, 1854–5
The Russian Frigate Pallad.Pallada (Russian: Паллада) was a sail frigate of the Imperial Russian Navy , most noted for its service as flagship of Vice Admiral Yevfimy Putyatin during his visit to Japan in 1853, which later resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Shimoda of 1855, establishing formal…
Red Sea Convoys
HMS Kimberley (photographed in 1942) Italian destroyer Pantera The first of the Red Sea convoys, collectively the BN/BS series, consisting of nine ships including six tankers, gathered in the Gulf of Aden on 2 July. Thereafter these convoys sailed up and down the Red Sea on a regular schedule. Admiral…