To lose a ship once, as Wilde nearly suggested, may be regarded as misfortune. To lose the same ship twice begins to look like carelessness…
Artiglio: Careful as you go now
In 1930 the Artiglio was the world’s most modern salvage ship. And its latest job was about to go with a bang…
Getting to the point
The ram: a damn old ding dong
Ukraine: Back to the Future
All that’s old is new again. And this time it has a French accent…
In defence of the K-Class…
Steam-powered submarines are such an obviously stupid idea that only an idiot would build them. Right?
The enduring beauty of French predreadnoughts
In the early 1890s the French navy had a problem, and as usual only half of it was across the English Channel…