Airframe Assemblies
Airframe Assemblies is a company on Sandown Airport which restores classic aircraft. They focus mainly on Spitfires though when we visited, they had a pair of Hawker Tempest wings [...]
Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Trust
It’s always great when members get to participate in something that is not widely available to the public. Ten of us were able to take up our member, Cheryl [...]
Our summer started with a splendid lunch at the bistro
Our summer events season started with a splendid group lunch at the bistro - or more accurately Brasserie Blanc in Gunwharf. Food, service and value were all excellent and [...]
Fanning the Coals and Forging the Weapons
Mark Barton brought Fanning the Coals and Forging the Weapons, the history and experience of Royal Navy engineers, to life in his fascinating talk. Commander Mark Barton BEng, MA, [...]
Villeneuve and Barham
Our May meeting brought contrasting views of two near contemporaries: Admirals Villeneuve and Barham. Paul Chamberlain spoke on Villeneuve: The Inconvenient Admiral. The Napoleonic wars saw some 200,000 French [...]
Midshipmen’s Journals
Brian Lavery’s talk on Midshipmen’s Journals in History drew on his current research on the insights available from this under-appreciated resource. Originally a strictly factual echo of the ship’s [...]
The Special Relationship
Admiral Sir Jonathon Band’s very topical talk entitled The Special Relationship – At risk from Trump? started with a reminder that the term was coined by Winston Churchill in [...]
Triangle Girls
Our member Cheryl Jewitt and Ian Barbeary produced a fine double act on the ‘Triangle Girls’ of Portsmouth Royal Dockyard in the First World War. Who? Following the extension [...]
SMS Emden
In January our main feature was Jeremy Thomas on SMS Emden. The talk entitled A Tale of Five Ships concerned the exploits of the German light cruiser Emden in [...]
Gunboats on the Great European River
Our main feature was Mark Brady talking about Gunboats on the Great European River. Mark joined Dartmouth in Sep 1968 and retired from the Service at the end of [...]