The Journal
“May England still retain her old supremacy upon the seas, despite the constant changes in Naval Architecture, but may God in his mercy grant that the pages of the nation’s history be never again darkened with so sad a tale as the loss of the ill-fated ‘Captain’.”
“From the narrative of Gunner James May, sole surviving officer of the experimental rigged turret ironclad HMS Captain, foundered off Cape Finisterre, 7th September 1870.”
© Geoff Hunt PPRSMA. See: findthecaptain.co.uk
March 2025: Volume 18, Issue 1
Editorial
Articles
- Howard J. Fuller, ‘The Whole History of this Ill-fated Vessel’: HMS Captain, the American Civil War, and the Mid-Victorian Struggle for Naval Superiority
- Stephen McLaughlin, Navigating Uncharted Waters: The Russian Naval General Staff, 1906–1914
- Anselm J. van der Peet, Punching Above Its Weight: The Royal Netherlands Navy within Allied Command Atlantic 1952 – mid 1970s
Book Reviews
- Michael Verney. A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early U.S. Republic by Chuck Steele
- John Fass Morton. Sea Power and the American Interest: From the Civil War to the Great War by Joseph Moretz
- Nicholas A. Lambert. The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Concept of $ea Power by R. James Orr
- Brian Lavery. Two Navies Divided: The British and United States Navies in the Second World War by Joseph Moretz
- Evan Mawdsley. Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory by Corbin Williamson
- Martin Stansfeld. Japanese Carriers and Victory in the Pacific: The Yamamoto Option by John M. Jennings