Archive Results For: Atlantic
German Supply Ships and Blockade Runners in the Canary Islands in the Second World War
At the start of the Second World War a number of German merchant ships took refuge in the Canary Islands. The German authorities took control of them and some were used as blockade runners and others as supply ships for the German navy. The preparation and departure of these ships was performed with the consent […] Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | WW2
Subjects include: Merchant Marines | Navies
Documents. Two sets of fighting instructions, 1914
The two sets of tactical instructions relate to the defeat at the Battle of Coronel of Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock. Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | WW1
Subjects include: Battles & Tactics | Navies
‘Suitable to the Meanest Capacity’: Mathematics, navigation and self-education in the early modern British Atlantic
How was elementary mathematical learning initially acquired in early modern England and the wider Atlantic world? What kind of mathematics was being emphasized? What kind of materials and methods were employed? What were the motivations of those learning the subject? This article argues that a large part of early modern mathematics was self-taught, began informally, […] Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Other (Early Modern)
Subjects include: Science & Exploration
The Wreck of the Dutch East India Company Ship Haarlem in Table Bay, 1647, and the Establishment of the ‘Tavern of the Seas’
On Sunday 25 March 1647, shortly after five o’clock in the afternoon, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship Nieuw Haarlem or Haarlem was wrecked in Table Bay, off the coast of South Africa. The events that followed had far-reaching consequences for the history of South Africa. Fifty-eight of the crew were repatriated by accompanying […] Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Other (Early Modern)
Subjects include: Harbours & Dockyards | Merchant Marines | Strategy & Diplomacy
Note: New Light on the Battle Off the Virginia Capes: Graves vs Hood
A new version of the narrative describing the battle off the Virginia Capes, in which the logs of Hood’s ships are investigated to find the truth. Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | American Revolution
Subjects include: Battles & Tactics | Navies
Note: Richard Mount, London Shipowner
There were complications for the owner of shares, like Mount who owned shares in a series of large commercial sailing vessels. Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Other (Nineteenth C) | Pacific
Subjects include: Merchant Marines
Document: The Wartime Diaries of Convoy Signalman George Robins
A personal record of life as a convoy signaller in merchant convoys during the second World War. Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | North Sea | WW2
Subjects include: Manpower & Life at Sea | Merchant Marines
The Tip of the Spear: Captain Henry Hotham and the blockade of Brest and L’Orient
The diaries of Captain the Honourable Henry Hotham from 1810 and 1811 reveal the conditions at sea during the blockade he kept of Brest and L’Orient, which required exceptional fortitude and seamanship. Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Napoleonic War
Subjects include: Battles & Tactics | Navies | Ship Handling & Seamanship
Note: The Wreck of the ‘Apostle’ San Bartolomé (1597)
The location of this Spanish wreck dating from 1597 has been disputed, but documentary evidence reconstructs the events which led to its loss. Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Tudors | Shipwrecks
Subjects include: Navies
Note: The Wreck of the ‘Apostle’ San Bartolomé (1597)
An examination of the possible sites of the wreck of the post-Armada San Bartolomé and its eventual location at Mundaka Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Other (Early Modern) | Shipwrecks
Subjects include: Navies