Plans to repatriate the former Royal Navy Type 21 frigate HMS Ambuscade to the United Kingdom from Pakistan are continuing to move forward. The vessel, which was sold to Pakistan ...
Falkland Islands
Occasional Paper 58: Postcards Home
July 2019 An interest in philately has led to a collection of post cards from a century past showing the Pacific colonies of the German Empire. These help bring to ...
Book Review: No Picnic
Title: No Picnic – An Account of the 1982 Falklands War by Author: Royal Marine Maj Gen Julian Thompson Publisher: Cassell. ISBN: 0-304-35647-6 This book, a revised edition of a ...
Newspaper Report: Battle of the Falklands – December 1914
The Two Falkland Islands Wars – 1982 (Part 2)
Battle for Falkland Islands – 1982 The Argentine seizure of the Falkland Islands (las Islas Malvinas) on 2 April 1982 took place at a time when the British Royal Navy ...
The Two Falkland Islands Wars – 1914 (Part 1)
Chivalry and Courtesy in war and when most unexpected!
In the sea action on 9 November, 1914 off Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean, between the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German cruiser SMS Emden, a kindly gesture ...
Lessons from the Falkland Islands War
IN HINDSIGHT all naval powers learnt lessons from the Argentine-British conflict in the Falkland Islands in 1982. Dr. Juan Carlos Murguizur had this to say in an article published in ...