Archive Results For: Indian Ocean
The Society Annual Lecture 2011 HMS Trincomalee (1817): a Frigate spanning three centuries, also known as TS Foudroyant from 1902 to 1989
The lecture covers the complex history of the 38-gun Fifth Rate frigate Trincomalee over nearly 200 years in which her varied career and service to the nation, whether in naval or civilian use, has been brought into focus. Those who wish to read her full story and access technical details and references will find them […] Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | North Sea | Other (Twentieth C) | Other (Nineteenth C) | Indian Ocean
Subjects include: Historic Vessels, Museums & Restoration | Manpower & Life at Sea | Merchant Marines | Ship Handling & Seamanship | Shipbuilding & Design
Parliamentary Politics and the Singapore Base: a Surplus of Opinions and Few Answers, 1918–29
At the close of the First World War, the British government continued to examine how to defend an empire that spanned the globe. This challenge was compounded by a number of debt-conscious members of the House of Commons and post-war governments who were eager to reduce defence spending. Thus the challenge for the Royal Navy […] Read More
Filed under: Interwar | Indian Ocean
Subjects include: Harbours & Dockyards | Miscellaneous
Note: The Explosion of the Fort Stikine, Bombay, 14 April 1944
An eyewitness account of the explosion which took place while the highly explosive cargo was being unloaded from Fort Stikine in Bombay. Read More
Filed under: WW2 | Indian Ocean
Subjects include: Harbours & Dockyards | Merchant Marines | Weapons
British Seapower and the Mysore Wars of the Eighteenth Century
The naval aspirations of Hyder Ali (1760–82) and Tipu Sultan (1782–99), rulers of the southern Indian state of Mysore, is a much neglected subject. In creating a naval force, that clearly emulated those of the European nations, it was seen as a means of first neutralizing the power of the British before being ultimately used […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Eighteenth C) | Indian Ocean
Subjects include: Battles & Tactics | Navies | Strategy & Diplomacy
Entirely the Most Absurd and False Narrative that was ever Deliver’d to the Publick’: an Inquiry into what Really Happened on George Shelvocke’s Privateering Voyage
It has been generally agreed that the two contemporary published accounts of the privateering expedition undertaken in 1719 by John Clipperton and George Shelvocke are thoroughly unreliable and the writers, in the words of O. K. Spate, ‘hard liars both’. Recent studies, by Glyndwr Williams (1997), Philip Edwards (1994) and Jonathan Lamb (2001 and 2004) […] Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Other (Eighteenth C) | Indian Ocean | Pacific
Subjects include: Administration | Pirates, Corsairs & Privateers
Note: The Loss of the MV Dara 8 April 1961
An account of the loss by fire after an explosion of the MV Dara. Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Indian Ocean
Subjects include: Merchant Marines
‘This Great Complex Concern’: Victualling the Royal Navy on the East Indies Station, 1780–1815
The East Indies station was the largest and most challenging area in which the Royal Navy operated during the long eighteenth century. Although operations on the station are well understood, its administration has until recently been the subject of little research. This article, which builds upon work by the author on the victualling of the […] Read More
Filed under: Napoleonic War | French Revolution | Indian Ocean | East India Company
Subjects include: Administration | Logistics
The First Alan Villiers Memorial Lecture: Naval Capability in the Early Modern Period: An introduction
This lecture focuses on the geopolitical consequences of Portuguese entry into the Indian Ocean, the most significant instance of a major change in naval capability in this period. Read More
Filed under: Other (Early Modern) | Indian Ocean
Subjects include: Battles & Tactics | Merchant Marines | Navies | Strategy & Diplomacy
Note: The British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd, Deck-passenger Trade
The ships who carried deck passengers, known as the ‘unberthed’ trade often carried large numbers, which made them ideal as troop carriers when the war needed huge passing carrying capacity. Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Indian Ocean
Subjects include: Ocean Liners & Passenger Craft
Note: On the improbability of a Swahili origin for the word ‘dhow’.
The origins of the use of the word ‘dhow’ in Swahili are painstakingly investigated. Read More
Filed under: Other (Nineteenth C) | Other (Eighteenth C) | Indian Ocean
Subjects include: Miscellaneous