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Punching Above Its Weight: The Royal Netherlands Navy within Allied Command Atlantic 1952 – mid 1970s
February 26, 2025
Abstract The Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) was in the mid-1960s the third navy in size and operations within NATO Allied Command Atlantic (ACLANT). Also the RNLN was one of the initiators of the Standing Naval Force Atlantic (STANAVFORLANT) and one of the few NATO navies entrusted to operate with US nuclear depth charges in wartime, … CONTINUE READING ❯
The Challenges of Command: The Royal Navy’s Executive Branch Officers, 1880-1919
March 9, 2021
The Challenges of Command surveys the executive branch officer corps of the Royal Navy from the last part of the Nineteenth Century through the close of the First World War. In the process, Robert Davison focuses his analysis on the broader societal and technological setting of the period that acted upon the Royal Navy and … CONTINUE READING ❯
Dr. Michael J. Crawford: Retirement Remarks
July 31, 2018
Dr. Michael J. Crawford Senior Historian Naval History and Heritage Command On this occasion of my retirement after almost thirty-six years as a navy historian, I want to talk with you about two subjects dear to my heart: me and us. I want to discuss my career as a historian and I want to address … CONTINUE READING ❯
The Decisive Blow: the Anglo-French Naval Campaign of 1759
July 31, 2018
Contents: Origins of British Naval Supremacy The Battles Consequences Economic Effects Colonial Repercussions Bibliography Kevin J. Delamer U.S. Naval War College The Seven Years’ War was a global conflict, conducted between 1756 and 1763, on a scale unlike any previous war. Most of the fighting was done in Europe between continental powers, and yet the … CONTINUE READING ❯
The First Class at RAF No. 31 Radio School: August to September, 1941
July 28, 2018
Contents: In the Wilds of Ontario BCATP and the Aerodrome of Democracy A Desperate Measure No. 31 Radio School Launches Drinking from the Radar Fire Hose Life at at the School After the First Class’ Graduation Epilogue Bibliography Paul Renard George Washington University School of Medicine In the Wilds of Ontario William C. Fuchs Hawaii, … CONTINUE READING ❯
Why There Was No Privateering in the Spanish-American War
July 28, 2018
Contents: Introduction The Declaration of Paris and the “Barbarous Warfare” of Privateering The Righteous Victim: Spain’s Contradictory Diplomacy over Privateering Professionals and Privateers: American Naval Strategy in the War with Spain Honor for want of a Ship: Spanish Naval Strategy in 1898 Conclusion Bibliography Scott D. Wagner Undergraduate Student College of Wooster Introduction The front … CONTINUE READING ❯
What Are They Reading? Vol. 2
November 18, 2016
This article is the second edition of our continuing series which allows readers of this journal who are interested in international naval history and related topics to share with colleagues ideas on good books to read which may be of general interest. Contributions are not intended to be full book reviews, rather simply suggestions for … CONTINUE READING ❯
The Treatment of Survivors and Prisoners of War, at Sea and Ashore
May 26, 2016
Contents: Background Sinking and Capture USNOB Argentia Boston “Fiery Furnace” at Fort Hunt Reunion Dr. Philip K Lundeberg Curator Emeritus of Naval History, Smithsonian Institution Background On the eve of POW/MIA remembrance day, we may seek deeper understanding by beginning with a critical directive issued by the VCNO to all ships and stations on 19 … CONTINUE READING ❯
What Are They Reading? Vol. 1
May 26, 2016
Historians are fundamentally readers. The difficult question is how one selects what to read in the limited amount of time available. Book reviews of all kinds help us decide. So, to, do recommendations such as the U.S. Navy’s Professional Reading Program or the Professional Reading List of the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. … CONTINUE READING ❯
The Last Big Gun: At War and at Sea with HMS Belfast
May 26, 2016
Readers of this forum familiar with London doubtless will have at some point visited the cruiser HMS Belfast which forms a key adjunct to the Imperial War Museum’s record of twentieth century conflict. The Last Big Gun offers the backstory to a portion of that memorial. In the process what is related is not so … CONTINUE READING ❯