Author Results for Philip Macdougall
‘So Complete Was Our Victory! So Complete Their Ruin!’: An analysis of the battle of Çeşme, 1770
This article presents an analysis of why a technically advanced Ottoman fleet of overwhelming numerical superiority operating in its home waters should have been decisively defeated by a Russian fleet operating in totally unfamiliar waters and hampered by a divided command structure, with no truly safe harbour to fall back on and with ships manned […] Read More
Filed under: Mediterranean | Other (Eighteenth C)
Subjects include: Battles & Tactics
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
William Scamp and his Early Naval Works in the Mediterranean
The architect William Scamp (1801–72) was chief assistant to the Director of Admiralty Works 1845–52 then Deputy Director 1852–67. In 1841 he built for the Royal Navy a new steam-powered bakery at Malta, with iron stanchions and ceiling support joists on all three storeys, and completed the church of St Paul. In 1844 he started […] Read More
Filed under: Mediterranean | Other (Nineteenth C)
Subjects include: Historic Vessels, Museums & Restoration | Logistics | Navies
Hazardous Waters: Naval Dockyard Harbours during the Age of Fighting Sail
From the late 18th century to the end of the Napoleonic wars, shoaling and other environmental factors increasingly limited the ability of British dockyards to accommodate larger classes of warships. The problem was particularly acute on the Thames and the Medway, because of upstream urban and commercial development, but affected Plymouth and Portsmouth as well. […] Read More
Filed under: English Channel | North Sea | Other (Nineteenth C) | Other (Eighteenth C)
Subjects include: Harbours & Dockyards | Logistics | Navies
Gibraltar Dockyard: Problems of Recruitment 1939-1945
With increasing awareness that a further European war might one day occur, the decision was finally taken to enlarge two of the docks. From the point of view of labour recruitment, the adopted time table for work upon these docks turned a relatively simple problem into a nightmare. With both docks, at differing times, placed […] Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | WW2 | Mutiny & Discipline | Mediterranean | Jutland
Subjects include: Administration | Harbours & Dockyards | Navies
The Formative Years: Malta Dockyard, 1800-1815
When Malta was captured in 1800, the Royal Navy inherited an established dockyard and large natural harbour. The dockyard was rapidly utilised but the peace of 1802 cast a shadow, with the Government having agreed to return the island to the Order of St. John. Delaying tactics ensured the Navy retained its dockyard when hostilities […] Read More
Filed under: Napoleonic War | French Revolution | Mediterranean
Subjects include: Administration | Harbours & Dockyards | Navies