Author Results for W. Mark Hamilton
Book Review-‘‘Nemesis’: The first iron warship and her world’ byA. G. Marshall
Adrian Marshall’s ‘Nemesis’ makes a significant contribution not only to a history of this unique ship, but to the history of the nineteenth-century Asian world in which she sailed. Nemesis was the first of a generation of steam-powered ironclad vessels with watertight compartments. It was also the first iron vessel to round the Cape of […] Read More
Filed under: Opium Wars | East India Company
Subjects include: Shipbuilding & Design | Weapons
Book Review-‘Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the struggle for the North Sea’ by J. Rüger
Author Jan Rüger has written a masterful history of a ‘rock’ in the North Sea, and in the process provided his readers with a fascinating account of Anglo-German relations. The ‘rock’ in question is the island of Heligoland, and in the author’s words it’s ‘an apt location from where to rethink the Anglo-German past’. Heligoland […] Read More
Filed under: WW1 | Interwar | North Sea | WW2 | Other (Nineteenth C)
Subjects include: Battles & Tactics | Strategy & Diplomacy
The ‘New Navalism’ and the British Navy League, 1895-1914
At the end of the 19th. Century a concern felt in certain circles was that the Admiralty and the Navy existed in a post-Trafalgar euphoric stupor, seemingly unaware that other navies, although unable to match the Royal Navy numerically, were busy building capital warships. In this article W. Mark Hamilton traces the response to these […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (Nineteenth C) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Miscellaneous | Navies