REVIEW BY MARK BEATTIE-EDWARDS It was with some delight that I received an email to write this review, as I had literally only one hour before I purchased my own copy. Over the last five years I have been working…
Vitrified forts I was interested to read (in CA 415) that one version of Tinnis fort [underlying Tinnis Castle, which is shown in its medieval prime BELOW] had been set alight and vitrified. It is remarked that this is not…
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This January, conservation of the roughly 2,500 timbers recovered from the wreck was completed – a process that took 14 years
In its heyday, HMS Invincible was considered one of the finest ships in the Royal Navy – and although it sank off Portsmouth in 1758, its remains represent the best-preserved 18th-century warship known in UK waters. Carly Hilts spoke to Daniel Pascoe, who headed recent excavations of the wreck, and visited an exhibition currently running at The Historic Dockyard Chatham to find out more.
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A project working to reconstruct the famous Anglo-Saxon ship excavated at Sutton Hoo in 1939 continues apace. Philip Leech brings us up to date on the latest progress.
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The early 17th century marked a period of rapid growth in warships as the galleons of the previous century began to give way to the ship-of-the-line, which would dominate naval warfare for the next 250 years. One of the first such vessels was the English 55-gun Prince Royal, completed in 1611, which remained in service until her destruction in 1666 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.